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Post-Second World War phenomenon
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baby boom
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Baby Boom is a song written by Magnus Uggla and Anders Henriksson , and recorded by Magnus Uggla on his 1989 " 35-åringen ". Song lyrics describe baby booming during the late 1980's economic boom in Sweden . The single peaked at 15th position at the Swedish ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coined 1941, from baby (n.) + boom (n.); derivative baby-boomer (member of the one that began 1945) recorded by 1974.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context singulare tantum English) The increase in the birth rate following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II. 2 Any similar increase in the birth rate.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n : the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II [syn: baby-boom generation ]
Usage examples of baby boom.
Stripped of costume-drama accoutrements, she's a twenty-first-century adult, born or decanted after the millennial baby boom.
I'm sorry I'm such an asshole, sorry I was such a bad husband, lousy father, shitty lawyer, mean middle-aged baby boom critter who sneers at street people and doesn't recycle.
He had read in the daily press of the postwar baby boom, of the growth of the suburbs, the expansion of American industry beyond the confines of the old cities.
By now, almost every female of child-bearing age, including the Deski and Rugarians, was expecting - which meant that Retreat Bay would have a baby boom of 2,103 new souls.