Baby Buster (Noun)
Meaning
A person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- As a baby buster, she never experienced the crowded classrooms and dorm rooms that her parents had known.
- The baby busters were the first generation to grow up with personal computers and video games.
- Demographers have long been interested in the baby busters, who for years seemed destined to bear the burden of supporting a large population of retirees.
- The rise of yuppie culture in the 1980s was largely driven by the baby busters, who sought to assert their individuality and material success.
- By the time the baby busters came of age, women were making up a much larger percentage of the workforce, and the traditional nuclear family was no longer the norm.