Boomer

Boomer

Boomer may mean:

Places
* Boomers! Parks - a theme park / family entertainment center chain owned by Palace Entertainment.
* Boomer, North Carolina

Animals
* An adult male kangaroo
* An adult male dog
* Mountain Beaver

People
* Chris Berman, an ESPN football analyst, nicknamed "Boomer"
* Boomer Esiason, a former National Football League quarterback
* Boomer (porn star)
* David Wells, a Major League Baseball pitcher (nicknamed "Boomer")
* Boomer (Morning X), radio DJ in Georgia

Fictional creations
* Owen Mercer, the current Captain Boomerang in the DC Comics universe
* Boomer (experiment 288), an experiment from "Lilo & Stitch: The Series"
* One of the two Targetmaster partners to Autobot chemist Quickmix in "Transformers": see Quickmix (Transformers)
* Tabitha Smith, a Marvel Comics comic book superhero, formerly called Boomer
* The blond member of the Rowdyruff Boys, a trio of villains in "The Powerpuff Girls"
* The dog in the TV series Here's Boomer
* Boomer (Battlestar Galactica)
* Boomer (anime term), a fictional synthetic life form developed by Katsuhito Stingray in the anime series "Bubblegum Crisis"

Otherwise
* A baby boomer, someone who was born during the period of increased birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following World War II
* A ballistic missile submarine in American naval slang
* The Australian national basketball team, officially nicknamed "Boomers"
* Boomer, one of the two mascots owned by the Indiana Pacers
* A nickname and organization of advocates for the opening of the Oklahoma Territory for settlement; see Sooners, settlers who didn't wait for permission to settle.
* A nickname for transient railroad workers who did not stay with any one railroad, see Hobo.
* Port Vale F.C's mascot, Boomer (K9) the dog
* A nickname for a boom operator in aerial refueling
* Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
* A measurement unit representing the equivalent of 5 inches


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