Boomer vs Booner - What's the difference?
boomer | booner |
An adult male kangaroo.
A baby boomer.
A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
(US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
* 1990 , The Hunt For Red October :
(UK) The bittern.
(Australia, chiefly, Canberra, slang) A person who takes particular pride in their car and enjoys showing it off.
(Australia, slang, derogatory) A bogan.
As nouns the difference between boomer and booner
is that boomer is an adult male kangaroo while booner is (australia|chiefly|canberra|slang) a person who takes particular pride in their car and enjoys showing it off or booner can be (us) a trophy size big game animal, as measured by the ranking criteria.boomer
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Noun
(en noun)- Distant contact, probably submerged. It's a wild guess, but I'd say we hit a boomer coming out of the barn. Could be a missile boat out of Polijarny.