zoomer

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

zoom +‎ -er

The sense of "active baby boomer" is influenced by the word boomer, and is attributed to Moses Znaimer.[1]

Noun[edit]

zoomer (plural zoomers)

  1. That which zooms.
    • 2011, Gavin Lyall, Uncle Target:
      The car zoomed – the driver was definitely a zoomer – away to some unknown car pool []
  2. A kind of small swim fin.
  3. (neologism) A baby boomer with a very active lifestyle.
    • 2010, Cheryl Cran, 101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y and Zoomers Happy at Work, →ISBN, page 15:
      A recent study released by the Conference Board of Canada states that the Zoomers (Baby Boomers who refuse to age), Gen X and Gen Y have more in common than we might think.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Portmanteau from Generation Z and boomer (baby boomer, a person born between 1945 and early 1960s). Merriam-Webster identified the earliest use in its current sense as being made on 16 March 2016 by an aviation engineer named Jennie Santoro at HNTB Seattle, in a presentation called "Boomers to Zoomers: Passing the Torch to Generation Z!"

However, the word was ultimately popularized through a variant of the Wojak meme which originated on 4chan on July 21st, 2018, and from there spread to other platforms. Accordingly, Urban Dictionary view statistics suggest that it began gaining traction in mid-2018 before peaking in January 2020.

Noun[edit]

zoomer (plural zoomers)

  1. A member of Generation Z. [from late 2010s]
    Synonyms: Generation Z, Generation Zer, Gen Z, Gen-Zer, Z, Zer
    Coordinate term: millennial
    • 2019 December 27, Anya Strzemien, “13 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2020”, in New York Times[1]:
      Hug a Boomer/Xer/Millennial/Zoomer In case you missed it: Gen Z is mad at boomers for the state of the world; boomers are mad at Gen Z for being so dismissive; Gen X feels forgotten and yet resents even themselves; []
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Descendants[edit]
  • Russian: зу́мер (zúmer)
See also[edit]
Timeline of generations
Generation AlphazoomerGeneration ZmillennialGeneration YMTV generationGeneration Xbaby boomerSilent GenerationG.I. Generationgreatest generation

Further reading[edit]

  • “Words We're Watching: 'Zoomer'”, in Merriam-Webster[2], 2020-01-13

Zoomer Wojak – KnowYourMeme[3], (please provide a date or year) 23 And Z: America's Freshly-Minted Adult Generation Lurches Into A Brave Real World – Builder Online (18 May 2020)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Cheryl Cran (2010) 101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y and Zoomers Happy at Work, →ISBN, page 11: “The term “Zoomer” was coined by Canadian Moses Znaimer [] , well known for his contrarian views on aging and modern Baby Boomers.”

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From zoom.

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Verb[edit]

zoomer

  1. (cinematography, photography) to zoom, to zoom in
    Antonym: dézoomer

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Verb[edit]

zoomer

  1. present of zoome