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Doomer vs Boomer - What's the difference?

doomer | boomer |

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)
  • 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
  • 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 ."
  • (rare) One who, or that which, dooms.
  • * 1599? , William Shakespeare, As You Like It
  • Are not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?
  • * 1869 , Edward Bulwer Lytton, Prose Works
  • 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.

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    boomer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 :
  • 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.
  • (UK) The bittern.
  • Derived terms

    * baby boomer * echo boomer * grandboomer