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

Millennials are 10 times more likely than baby boomers to get a prenup, according to a new survey from LegalShield. —Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025

Twenty/20 Many baby boomers aren’t on track to retire with enough money. —Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025

The housing market is the least affordable it’s been since 1984, and the baby boomer generation, which struggled to get off its feet in the ’80s, has the cash and the equity today to muscle millennials out. —Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2025

The number of middle-aged households living paycheck to paycheck has increased compared to Generation Z and the Silent Generation — older than baby boomers — whose conditions have relatively stayed the same. —Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 13 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for baby boomer

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