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BABY BOOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
Synonyms:
baby-boom generation; baby boom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("baby boom" is a kind of...):
generation (group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent)
Meronyms (members of "baby boom"):
baby boomer; boomer (a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s)