BOOMER • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Boomer

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Boomer n.

One who, or that which, booms.

(Zool.) A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.

(Zool.) A large male kangaroo.

One who works up a "boom". (Slang, U. S.)

See images of 'Boomer'

Etymology of 'Boomer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Boomer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Boomer of the University. We shall be a party of four. I thought the Duke might be interested in meeting Boomer. He may care to hear something of the ...

— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock

... described, had got the "straight tip" which enabled him to instantly enlist the services of so many outlawed men in a desperate game. Gradually as the whole scheme became evident and the truth leaked out, Gate City woke up to a pitch of pious fury against its late popular and prominent "boomer" and citizen. Gradually it dawned upon them that, in jealous hatred of the young soldier whom Folsom's lovely daughter seemed to favor, he had first sought to undermine him, then to ruin and finally to make way with, even ...

— A Wounded Name • Charles King

... he was asleep all night. They thought that he was awake and doing it purposely. They might have known that he couldn't see in the night, for his eyes are made for daylight and not for darkness, like the eyes of Boomer the Nighthawk and Hooty the Owl. But they didn't seem to think of this, and insisted that almost every night they heard him down in the alders along the Laughing Brook. Yet every morning when he awoke, Sammy would find himself just where he went to sleep the ...

— The Adventures of Mr. Mocker • Thornton W. Burgess

Words linked to "Boomer" : somebody, mortal, baby boomer, someone, baby boom, individual, baby-boom generation, soul