baby boomer

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noun
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  • A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s), when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the western Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.

Etymology

Affix from English baby boom.

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English

baby boom

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