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

Second, baby boomers generally have a higher credit score than most generations, with an average score of 743. —Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024

The $90 trillion Great Wealth Transfer is set to rebalance the generational income gap as the Silent Generation and baby boomers hand their fortunes over to their millennial and Gen Z offspring. —Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 30 Sep. 2024

The baby boomer kind of moving towards ‘the economy is messed up, uni-party, pedophiles.’ . . . —Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024

Also, Athearn suspects that the baby boomers who popularized backpacking and peakbagging are aging out of the fourteener culture. —John Meyer, The Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above