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

Meanwhile, more baby boomers are taking trips this year compared to last year, after putting off travel over inflation or health concerns. —Josh Feldman, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023

For baby boomers, there might never be a better time to sell. —Justin Lahart, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023

That’s the second-oldest age in four decades of NAR’s data—second only to last year’s 36—and higher than when many baby boomers bought their first homes. —Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023

While baby boomers primarily sought stability, Gen Z is on the hunt for passion. —Lumine Lin, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023

Why wouldn’t Woodstock baby boomer parents bring their families to big and far safer, state-of-the-art arena or stadium concerts, hold the mud and day-long traffic jams? —Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023

Today, baby boomers, millennials and Gen X all generate about 30 percent of sales, the company said. —Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023

One year later, Dean Baker projected for the Economic Policy Institute that the peak impact of baby boomers’ retirement would be realized in 2030. —Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023

The baby boomers are such a culturally dominant generation. —Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above