(n.) A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.
(n.) A large male kangaroo.
(n.) One who works up a "boom".
Example Sentences:
(1) Back in 1999 Chris Sidoti, then-head of the Australian Human Rights Commission, called the baby boomers “the most selfish generation in history”.
(2) The survey results show that sense of purpose deepens the further along you are in your career: 48% of baby boomers (those aged 51+) report that they prioritize purpose over pay and titles.
(3) Not all boomers won, and even among those who did there is room for coalition.
(4) But it’s not that brave, really: the baby boomers, the largest generational bulge of the last century, are of Geritol and Depends vintage now.
(5) Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth is a tirade of fury by two twentysomething journalists accusing baby boomers of selfish individualism.
(6) Nick-naming women 'Beyoncé voters' is exactly why we don't vote Republican | Jessica Valenti Read more Not only are baby boomers now outnumbered by millennials – but also the groups could not be more different: 66% of boomers are married, 72% are white and their income is $13,904 above the national median; over 40% of millennials are racial minorities, 60% are single and three-quarters believe America’s diversity of race, ethnicity and language makes the country stronger.
(7) Baby boomers are now reviled because we seem to have shaped society to suit ourselves: free university education (my student debt, owed to a frugal friend, was £120 when I left); on the property ladder at just the right time (first house in Wimbledon, bought in 1982, cost £31,000); and never had to worry about internships (I’d never even heard of them when I was a student) or jobs.
(8) Rocketing land prices, leaving accumulated wealth in the hands of the over-50s, have also meant that younger workers are paying higher mortgage bills than the baby-boomer generation, those born between 1947 and 1964.
(9) In 2015 it’s still far more palatable for politicians and moralists to denounce black artists working in black genres than it is to ban musicians who appeal to white baby boomers.
(10) This is where the baby boomers, who in the main weathered the recession better than most, have been spending their spare cash.
(11) Yvonne Roberts’s baby boomer view: ‘The perils of a moneyless old age have been brought forward’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer Miranda Sawyer says she hasn’t written a self-help manual, but it’s an often wise and reflective book that drops more famous names than currants in a fruitcake.
(12) It’s exciting that the baby boomer generation are changing it.
(13) Far from being burdened with unpayable debt, the baby boomers born in the late 1940s and 1950s were the most blessed generation in history.
(14) It appears that the 'baby boomers' - those born in the years after World War II - have had increased rates of depression and other related illnesses, including drug abuse and alcoholism.
(15) Boomers who got their start and their breaks in a forgiving welfare democracy are perennially surprised when young people without the financial capacity for independence become restive in junior jobs, readily leave them for better-paid opportunities, or comport themselves differently in the workplace.
(16) In 1990, aged 42, I wrote an article for the New Statesman on the fortysomethings – the 60s generation, baby boomers, learning how to deal with the sag without yet acquiring sufficient sagacity to fight off the message that the secret to surviving a midlife crisis was holding back time with hormone replacement therapy.
(17) In his book on the subject, he reckons that the average boomer will get 118% more in benefits and services over the course of their lives than they have paid in taxes.
(18) 8.30pm BST Lindsey Graham makes the point that with Baby Boomers retiring we need more many new (legal) workers to maintain economic output.
(19) That I came to London at a time when it was still possible to live on 60 quid a week – which is what I was getting paid in my first publishing job – puts me in the much-reviled “baby boomer” camp, though in the second tranche, sometimes known as “Generation Jones”, born in the late 1950s.
(20) Neal Hudson, associate director residential research at property firm Savills, said the change in tenures was probably “a combination of both market and demographic factors with fewer first time buyers entering the market and more baby boomers approaching retirement and paying off their mortgage, helped by low mortgage rates”.
Boozer
Definition:
(n.) One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine years later, I realise that, despite its gorgeous location, the Pavilion is a shitehole boozer that sells horrible food, the children are still stuck to their screens, despite our best efforts (including joining the sailing club: brief pause for the hollowest of laughs at that one), and something nasty is stirring in my adopted home town.
(2) 120 Grosvenor Street, 0161 273 1552, sandbarmanchester.co.uk Marble Arch The Marble Arch pub, Manchester It's 125 years old but this handsome Victorian boozer – all glazed tile work and vintage detail – has never been busier.
(3) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
(4) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don't drink as a rule, but one proud little abode cowering in the shadow of the monstrosity that is the Beetham Tower is a lovely little old Manchester boozer.
(5) Fans of the great British boozer should be raising a glass to Wandsworth council.
(6) Though Ukip did appear to be a one-pony trick; apart from some unreconstructed nutcases, they had little to offer by way of leadership apart from Nigel Farage , an alarmingly candid populist boozer.
(7) No one knows what Derrick Rose will be when he comes back, trade or no-trade Luol Deng was most likely gone via free agency, even Carlos Boozer knows that Carlos Boozer is going to be amnestied this summer.
(8) Carlos Boozer had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Bulls, who have dropped their last two games against Milwaukee at the United Center.
(9) It is a beautiful little boozer, full of delicious smells and people wearing fleece.
(10) We’ll have the latest word on the Globes hosts, Globes fashions, Globes winners, losers, and boozers, and just to keep it light, probably something about the depictions of torture in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.
(11) A labyrinth venue that is simultaneously a locals’ boozer and a multi-roomed comedy, sport and music venue, it is also hot on good beer.
(12) Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney are sitting side by side in a booth, scoffing cheeseburgers while appreciating the gathering of gnarly boozers at the jukebox in the corner.
(13) Tor-Kristian Karlsen has put together a handy five-point plan that Manchester United can use to appoint their new manager and you can use to pass off as your own ideas to impress your buddies down the boozer.
(14) Two-time All-Star forward Carlos Boozer joined Chicago Bulls in a sign-and-trade deal with Utah Jazz for a reported $75m over five years.
(15) The traditional wet-led boozer is suffering, while food-led pubs and restaurants are growing.
(16) But it is the ambience that keeps 'em coming back: a modern interpretation of the traditional London boozer, popular without being poncey.
(17) To be more specific, we're aiming to look closely at the decline of British boozers, their place in millions of lives, and an overlooked aspect of what some people call irresponsible capitalism.
(18) The battered boozer taking an occasional swig from his bottle of Whyte and Mackay on the late Inverness-to-Glasgow train shares an ambition with the progressive lawyer nursing a glass of red Burgundy in his lovely north Edinburgh home.
(19) The Houston trade made the Los Angeles Lakers start to look like the Island Of Misfit Contracts, as their two big moves seem to be adding the last lingering traces of Linsanity and Chicago punchline Carlos Boozer.
(20) There is a cluster of upper-middle signifiers all in a row: “Greenbelt, nimby, green wellies, Aga, Cotswolds, M4, Eton”, and another clump of something a bit more proletarian: “boozer, red top, Blighty, allotments, Blackpool”.