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Post-Second World War phenomenon
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baby boom
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n : the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II [syn: baby-boom generation ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But as the baby boom generation retires, the fund faces the possibility of depletion by 2030. ▪ Fifty years ago, the United States first met the postwar baby boom without enough pediatricians, schools, jobs or housing. ▪ In the ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Baby Boom is an American sitcom series starring Kate Jackson . The series is based on the 1987 film Baby Boom . The pilot premiered September 10, 1988 on NBC , and the series began on November 2, 1988.
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.
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.