Boomerese

See also: boomerese

English

Noun

Boomerese (uncountable)

Alternative letter-case form of boomerese.
- 1981, Paul John Radley, chapter 18, in Jack Rivers and Me, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, published 1986, →ISBN, page 189:
  “I never expected you to be a whole glory of women,” Darcy said. “Don’t blame me for the shifts in the attitudes of men. Get stuck into Helena Rubenstein . . . swab that cosmetic mob who bribe women to be frail to delude men.” / “Your Boomerese is already showing,” Goldie said.
- 1991 November 17, Bill Everhart, “From baby boom to bust”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 99, number 190, Pittsfield, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E2, column 3:
  The Busters have a right to be angry, but what can they do about it? The Boomers, born when families had three or four kids, outnumber them. Because of their numbers and money (“disposable income” in Boomerese) they are demographically desirable to advertisers, and television and movies continue to cater to them and probably always will.
- 2013, John R. Mabry, “Xers Ministering to Boomers”, in Faithful Generations: Effective Ministry Across Generational Lines, New York, N.Y.: Morehouse Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 3 (The “Transformative” Generation—The Baby Boomers), page 109:
  I myself was born in 1962, and I often say that I am an Xer who speaks fluent Boomerese. People like myself (a sub-group that some sociologists call Generation Jones) can help translate for later Xers what drives Boomers, and likewise can give guidance to Boomers on “just what is the Xers’ problem, anyway?”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Boomerese.