Technically, what goes around comes around. Boomerangst is he terror that the Baby Boom generation experiences at the reality of getting old; specifically the difficulty identifying their status as 'retired' or asking for any sort of 'Senior' discount. It begins at age 50 when AARP mails out a membership card and culminates in signing up for Medicare at 65.
-verb, ( -gated, -gating)
1. to delegate a task assigned to you, back to the person who assigned it.
2. to delegate a task assigned to you, over to someone else, usually a co-worker.
Basically, to deflect and redirect responsibility for a task or job.
Derived from the words 'boomerang' and 'delegate'. Can also be used as a noun, see example 3.
1. He emailed and asked if I could finish up databasetransfer, so I boomegated it back to him...
2. The boss delegated me with this task, which I am now boomegating over to you...
3. "Tossing to you... you can deflect to him but my boomegate blocker is up."
Boomeritis is an illness that forces the infected to talk like old British men from the 1800’s. It can be fatal in some situations, but the worst cases tend to only cause lasting damage to the brain and how it functions.