boomer (plural boomers)
An adult male kangaroo.
(informal) Ellipsis of baby boomer.
Coordinate term: zoomer
(slang, by extension) A person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well.
Something that makes a booming sound.
(US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
A device used to bind or tighten chain.
(US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
(UK) A bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).
(Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
Synonyms: sewellel beaver, sewellel
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Boomer (plural Boomers)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Boomer is the 12968th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2368 individuals. Boomer is most common among White (70.65%) and Black/African American (22.09%) individuals.
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Source: Wiktionary
Boom"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, booms.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A large male kangaroo.
4. One who works up a "boom". [Slang, U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
