boomerish

English

Etymology

boomer +‎ -ish

Adjective

boomerish (comparative more boomerish, superlative most boomerish)

1. Characteristic of a baby boomer.
   • 1996, Tim Celek, Dieter Zander, Patrick Kampert, Inside the Soul of a New Generation, page 143:

     He identifies a lot with the Buster attitude, but when it comes to management style, he tends to be very performance-oriented, very Boomerish. He fixes his eyes on the goal, and sometimes he's hurt his relationships with people in that process.

   • 2013, Touré, I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon, page 66:

     Where “1999” proposed an apathetic solution to the problem of the oncoming apocalypse—dance!—in “America” Prince sees dystopia and offers nothing but what he sees: No solutions, no boomerish optimism, he's just a camera.

   • 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A Howard Beale for the Instagram era, he’s here lashing out on behalf of boomerish power lunchers who believe in a woman’s right to a safe abortion and oppose police brutality but are too scared to admit how enraged they are by a generation of absolutist woke whiners.