baby boomer

noun

: a person born during a period of time in which there is a marked rise in a population's birth rate : a person born during a baby boom

especially : a person born in the U.S. following the end of World War II (usually considered to be in the years from 1946 to 1964)

The viewer is older, an aging baby boomer whose '60s activism has been lost among the years.

—Gary D. Christenson

Industry experts predict that reverse mortgages will play an increasingly important role in the coming years as some 70 million baby boomers hit their 60s—often with a lot less saved than they'd hoped.

—Cybele Weisser

Examples of baby boomer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Then the children of the baby boomers started looking for jobs. —Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025

Now, the youngest generation of workers is especially downtrodden by their prospects, with 51% expressing remorse for getting their certificates, compared to 41% of millennials and 20% of baby boomers. —Preston Fore, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2025

Others, though, have found that baby boomers, especially the younger ones, are much better at finding fulfillment outside work than their parents were. —Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025

Among the older generations, the share of buyers using crypto to finance their purchase was much lower: only 3.5 percent of Gen Xers and 0.5 percent of baby boomers sold crypto investments to fund their down payment. —Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for baby boomer

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