baby boom

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baby boom

A sudden, large, sustained increase in the birthrate, especially the one from the later 1940s through the early 1960s.

ba′by-boom′ adj.

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baby boom

(Sociology) a sharp increase in the birth rate of a population, esp the one that occurred after World War II. Also called (esp Brit): the bulge

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ba′by boom`

(sometimes caps.) a period of sharp increase in the birthrate, as that in the U.S. following World War II.

[1940–45, Amer.]

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baby boom - the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II

baby-boom generation

generation - group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

baby boomer, boomer - a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s; "they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers"

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