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baby boom
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baby boom
n.
A sudden, large, sustained increase in the birthrate, especially the one in the United States and Canada from the later 1940s through the early 1960s.
baby-boom (bb-bm) adj.
baby boom
n
(Sociology) a sharp increase in the birth rate of a population, esp the one that occurred after World War II Also called (esp Brit) the bulge
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Noun1.baby boombaby boom - the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
baby-boom generation
generation - group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
baby boomer, boomer - a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s; "they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers"


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But when that fact is combined with the phenomenon known as "population momentum" (the tendency for numbers to keep increasing, even with lower fertility, because past baby booms created a very young population), it's still enough to add 80 million people a year to the planet's burden.
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