Boomer

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Something that makes a booming sound.

   “That's when the Rev let loose one of those great big boomers of a laugh. It was so loud in the closed space, the effect was what Wes imagined it felt like to hear a bullet fired in a car.”

2. isim A device used to bind or tighten chain.
3. isim A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.

   “Distant contact, probably submerged. It's a wild guess, but I'd say we hit a boomer coming out of the barn. Could be a missile boat out of Polijarny.”

4. isim A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
5. isim An adult male kangaroo.
6. isim A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
7. isim A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
8. isim A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.

   “you and i both know that there are some boomers out there who'll consistently hit bronze @ 16ish and assuming they have protected themselves correctly, are some tough players.”

9. isim Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).
10. isim A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
11. isim A techno-optimist, in particular concerning artificial intelligence.

    “The doomers and the boomers are consumed by intramural fights, but from a distance they can look like two offshoots of the same tribe: people who are convinced that A.I. is the only thing worth paying attention to.”

12. isim A baby boomer.

    “Boomers came of age in the era of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.”

13. isim An elderly person, regardless of generation.

    “I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.”

14. isim A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.

    “I'm such a boomer; I have no idea how to use this phone.”

15. özel isim A surname.
16. isim A member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement.

    “Some skunk of a Sooner, sneaking in ahead of the Run, had set the blaze to keep the Boomers off, saving the land for himself.”

17. isim Alternative letter-case form of boomer.

    “Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.”