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boomer
noun- a large example of something AUSTRALIA, 1843
- The opposite of “cow” in this usage is not “bull” but often “boomer” or “bottler” as in “a boomer of a day.” — Arthur Chipper, The Aussie Swearer’s Guide, p. 34, 1972
- We were there to cover the boat race–big off-shore boomers like Cigarettes and Scarabs and Panteras, ninety miles an hour on the open sea. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 215, 1980
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 16, 1984
- Mooney Valley Racing Club secretary Ian McEwen described Melbourne’s second Sunday race meeting as a tremendous success. “It was an absolute boomer,” he said last night. — Sun-News Pictorial, p. 4, 1987
- a large kangaroo AUSTRALIA, 1830
- One big boomer came towards us when the dogs were after the others. — A.B. Facey, A Fortunate Life, p. 79, 1981
- a powerful, hard-breaking wave AUSTRALIA, 1942
- I’ve seen those boomers in a movie and I’m telling you they’d damn near kill you just seeing them on the screen. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, pp. 4–5, 1957
- — John Severson, Modern Surfing Around the World, p. 165, 1964
- Bells: A beach on the Victorian west coast famous for its boomers, its Easter surfing carnival and its lack of nightlife. — Phil Jarratt, Surfing Dictionary, p. 10, 1985
- a nuclear submarine armed with missiles US, 1976
- On the other question, no, they’ve never recalled all their boomers at once, but they do occasionally reshuffle all their positions at once. — Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, p. 88, 1984
- a member of the baby boom generation, born between roughly 1945 and 1955 US, 1982
- The boomers have failed to provide or protect or prepare us for any kind of hopeful life. — Empire Records, 1995
- It was all so depressing. Boomers weren’t supposed to get old. It sucked. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 138, 1996
- a worker who travels from job to job US, 1893
- Uncle Bill Balloon is a boomer and I have a few railroad things written that’ll give you a laugh. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal and Carolyn Cassady, p. 396, 10 January 1953
- I was surprised there were no hitchhikers or boomers on the road; it was still picking season. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 82, 1961
- Tell her I’ve become a boomer, gone down to Missouri to work on permit, they got this two-story structure they’re putting up. — Elmore Leoanrd, Killshot, p. 161, 1989
- during aerial refuelling, the boom operator on the fuelling plane US
- The bomber pilot’s task was then simply to formate within a prescribed envelope while the boomer, the refueling operator, actually flew the patented Boeing boom into the receptacle. — Walter J. Boyne and Steven L. Thompson, The Wild Blue, p. 442, 1986
- in trucking, a binder used to tie down a load US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 16, 1971
- a portable radio, tape player, or CD player US
- “Hell, man, here we just tryin’ to save by for scorin’ usselfs a CD boomer.” — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, p. 225, 1992
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