Doomer vs Boomer - What's the difference?
doomer | boomer |
One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.
* 2009 , David Holmgren, Future Scenarios
(rare) One who, or that which, dooms.
* 1599? , William Shakespeare, As You Like It
* 1869 , Edward Bulwer Lytton, Prose Works
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.
As nouns the difference between doomer and boomer
is that doomer is (video games|informal) a player of the video game doom while boomer is an adult male kangaroo.doomer
English
(wikipedia doomer)Noun
(en noun) (Malthusian Catastrophe)- Those who suggest the likely return of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (famine, pestilence, war, and death) are more vocal than ever before despite being labeled Malthusian or just "doomer ."
- Are not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?
- That fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prisoner's life and death, as the judge concluded.
Anagrams
* *boomer
English
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.
