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Boomerism 

Noun. A banal thought terminating cliche used by boomers and boomer sympathizers to convey the failed "conventional wisdom" of their generation. These cliche sayings are typical political or economic in nature and are refutable by hard real-world evidence.

The burden of evidence required to refute a "boomerism" is often substantial, requiring reference to the CPI (Consumer Price Index), Wage Index, or other economic data available on FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

Millennials and Zoomers are too busy working their jobs as senior economic analysts, program directors, or serving coffee to pay off students loans, to refute boomerisms.

None the less, entitled boomers feel obliged to be provided with hours of high valued consulting work, at no cost, to disprove them. Millennials and Zoomers have adopted a strategy of responding to boomerism with the much less costly "Ok Boomer".
Boomer: "Well hello there youngster, what are you doing?"

40 y/o balding senior management wage slave: "Doing my taxes. It looks like I might be able to pay off my student loans and mortgage by the time I'm 83."

Boomer: "I see you are eating avocado toast there! You know, if you ate less avocado toast, and lived in a shoe, you could be free of debt by now!"

Waitress: "Now that's a boomerism, if I ever heard one."

40 y/o balding senior management wage slave: "Ok, boomer."

Boomer: "STOP! Ok Boomer is the new N-word!"
Boomerism by neoproletariat November 10, 2019
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dutch boomerang 

when you are walking down the street and you drop a stinker, and the smell somehow ends up infront of you.
Tom: can you smell that? I think it is that group infront of us ..
Lars: or it was Petter throwing a dutch boomerang again ..
Petter: good one Lars, on the money as usual.
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boomercide 

The systematic extermination of all boomers to protect the planet from their destructive behaviors. Some have said that Coronavirus Covid-19 is Earth's first attempt at the boomercide as it has a high mortality rate for boomers but essentially nobody else.
The boomercide will happen when the boomers are taken to an island which will be nuked as the zoomers zoom away on speed boats.
boomercide by Emperor Aurelian March 12, 2020

boomercode 

Shitty code written by the previous generations of programmers (typically Boomers) that did nothing but produce technical debt for millenials and Gen Z programmers to clean up, thus killing the thrill and joy they expect to find based off of several popular YouTube programmers chronicling their lives at more modern tech companies. Most often you will find this regards developers who were huge advocates of a specific vendor that is notorious for pushing sub-par software packages on the industry for profit (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM).

Typically stacks filled with boomercode feature a wide set of redundant infrastructure, overengineering, technical debt and obscure proprietary softwares with no real value, such as EDI. The authors of such code typically also mock modern web standards and design practices. All while being unable to give a coherent explanation of their design choices.

50% of the transaction fees paid are likely because of boomercode.
Recruiter: Hey, I've got this awesome job, they're willing to pay relocation fees and triple your salary.
Modern Developer: Sure, what kind of technology are we talking about?
Recruiter: You'll love it, IBM Informix+Oracle, super legacy ASPX, 4gl, a little COBOL. Lots of WCF. 80% of the business logic written in PL/SQL
Modern Developer: So boomercode

boomer.jim 

An ironic meme maker on Instagram who makes shit content. The memes are repetitive and not funny. They also try to use their meme page as a political page as if anyone actually cares
John: boomer.jim’s memes are so unfunny it hurts
Jane: And the voiceover dude they have sucks ass at voiceovers. I hate that dude.
John: Same
boomer.jim by Those Testicles September 15, 2020

Baby Boomer 

Baby Boomer- (n) 1. An incompetent, fat, grey, lazy product of the "greatest generation," born between 1941 and 1955. 2. The nemesis of Gen X. 3. Former "Hippie" currently holding tenured academic professorship in disciplines requiring intelligence beyond their predetermined genetic capacity for advanced abstract reasoning. 4. Member of the largest demographic bubble in America that also refuses to retire. See "Viagrant"
1. Mr. Smith, an overweight, diabetic Baby Boomer and father of two comes from a family of accomplished Engineers and WWII veterans, yet, he has held his current position since the mid-1970's as a clerk/supervisor in an area that could easily be automated with computer code.

2. I can't believe that Baby Boomer is still my boss.

3. Not only I will have to pay for this Hippie's Medicare for the next 40 years, but this same Baby Boomer may very well reject my proposal for PhD research because my work would diametrically oppose everything he has championed since Johnson was President of the US.

4. I can't believe I have a Master's degree and military experience, but my boss, Mr. Smith, a Baby Boomer that graduated high school way back in the 60's, just won't retire, thus preventing me from advancing past him, as easily as I normally could!
Baby Boomer by Ronniucci June 17, 2010

booed up 

Spending time with your boo. aka your boyfriend or girlfriend.
Tina couldn't hang with us because she was booed up.
booed up by Dana Dane July 30, 2008