Dictionaries update to reflect current-usage. Millenials were also a US baby-boom generation, and my older three children, born mid-00’s, were part of a surge in births that made the papers. There’s good reason even your own link doesn’t include a date range.
Some are born in good times. Some are born into lots of company in their age range. Plenty are born-into neither, and the dictionary can’t distill all that into understanding without being vague on-purpose to leave room for idiots to grow.
Kids have no idea what a “boomer” is.
Originally a reference to a generation, the term has shifted to point to a behavior exhibited by old people in general. Language is fluid.
Your perfamatry is quite obliqueto.
Language is fluid.
People often forget dictionaries exist to quite literally define words and their meanings.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boomer
Language is contextual and fluid. Meanings change based on use.
Dictionaries update to reflect current-usage. Millenials were also a US baby-boom generation, and my older three children, born mid-00’s, were part of a surge in births that made the papers. There’s good reason even your own link doesn’t include a date range.
Some are born in good times. Some are born into lots of company in their age range. Plenty are born-into neither, and the dictionary can’t distill all that into understanding without being vague on-purpose to leave room for idiots to grow.