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baby buster

A person born during a baby bust.

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baby buster - a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically

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individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

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In contrast, 11 per cent came from the numbers of baby-buster women moving into that age group.

When is a baby boom not a baby boom? Nine points of caution when interpreting fertility trends

Clearly this workaholic is no Generation X baby-buster or grunge slacker, although Tanner's plays portray his disaffected peers and their horizon limited by unemployment, minimum-wage jobs, fear of AIDS and lost causes.

Justin Tanner

The Naughty Yard thus launches a profoundly unsettling exploration of the life and times of the baby-busters, often amoral, often lacking either compassion or affect, adrift in college and out, slackers all, coasting for no particular reason from one fairly expensive drug to another, listening without much emotion to the bad news on TV about the prolonged recession while hanging on to their aimless existences by a financial thread, regularly talking at cross-purposes with each other about their unfulfilled dreams which they know are the only things they really own in the whole wide world.