Boomer vs. Doomer

Boomernoun

An adult male kangaroo.

Doomernoun

One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.

Boomernoun

Something that makes a booming sound.

Doomernoun

(rare) One who, or that which, dooms.

Boomernoun

A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.

Doomernoun

(neologism) Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world, especially in relation to climate change.

Boomernoun

A device used to bind or tighten chain.

Doomer

and are 21st century versions of Malthusianism, an economic philosophy holding that human resource use will eventually exceed resource availability, leading to societal collapse. The terms arose primarily on the internet.

‘Doomer’; ‘doomerism’;

Boomernoun

A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.

Boomernoun

(UK) A bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).

Boomernoun

(Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).

Boomernoun

A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).

Boomernoun

(informal) a baby boomer.

‘Boomers came of age in the era of The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.’;

Boomernoun

An elderly person, regardless of generation.

‘I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.’;

Boomernoun

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.’;

Boomernoun

One who, or that which, booms.

Boomernoun

A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.

Boomernoun

A large male kangaroo.

Boomernoun

One who works up a "boom".

Boomernoun

a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s;

‘they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers’;