Boomer
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The term boomer may refer to:
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Demographic
- An abbreviation for baby boomer
- A mostly archaic American term for workers who travel from location to location, following jobs as they become available, especially in the construction, electric power, petroleum, and railroad industries. This is the source of such terms as "oil boom" and "boomtown." "Boom up" means to move on to another job or location. "Bump up," a term used today in wildland fire, has the same meaning as "boom up" and is probably a bastardization of that term.
- An early white settler of Indian Territory (Oklahoma). See Sooners.
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Entertainment
- A type of robot from the Bubblegum Crisis series. ( which is Actuaaly a miss translation)
- Boomer Esiason, former NFL quarterback
- Chris "Boomer" Berman, ESPN football anylyst.
- a television show called Here's Boomer
- Meltdown, from Marvel's X-Men comics
- Boomer (Battlestar Galactica), a character from the television show Battlestar Galactica and its 2003 remake
- Boston Red Sox pitcher David Wells
- A member of The Rowdyruff Boys
- A popular bot in the popular online game GunBound.
- Boomers! is a chain of Family Entertainment Centers owned by Palace Entertainment.
- A Pfhor corvette 'liberated' and rechristened by Durandal during the story of Marathon 2
- Toledo High School Mascot in Toledo Oregon : A Boomer (Mountain Beaver) "GO BOOMERS"
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Military
- A nickname for a ballistic missile submarine, based upon the fact that nuclear warheads detonate, or "boom," at their targets. Known in UK English as 'bombers'.
- A nickname for the boom operator on an aerial refuelling aircraft.
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Nature
- Slang term for psilocybin mushrooms. (used in the plural)
- A male kangaroo. Term used by singer Rolf Harris in his Christmas song "Six White Boomers"; the Australian men's basketball team is also called the Boomers
- An alternate name for the mountain beaver, a rare burrowing rodent found in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and southern British Columbia. The name boomer comes from a sound it makes to sound alarm or seek a mate.