Boomer
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The term boomer may refer to:
- A nickname for a ballistic missile submarine, based upon the fact that nuclear warheads detonate, or "boom," at their targets.
- An abbreviation for baby boomer
- A type of robot from the Bubblegum Crisis series
- Boomer Esiason, former NFL quarterback
- Boomer, a television dog
- Meltdown, from Marvel's X-Men comics
- Lieutenant Boomer, a character from the television show Battlestar Galactica and its 2003 remake
- An Australian euphemism for "kangaroo", used by singer Rolf Harris in his Christmas song "Six White Boomers"; the Australian men's basketball team is also called the Boomers
- A mostly archaic American term for workers who travel from location to location, following jobs as they become available, especially in the construction, electric power, petroleum, and railroad industries. This is the source of such terms as "oil boom" and "boomtown." "Boom up" means to move on to another job or location. "Bump up," a term used today in wildland fire, has the same meaning as "boom up" and is probably a bastardization of that term.