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.
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.
Your perfamatry is quite obliqueto.
Language is fluid.