Zoomer
noun[C]
uk/ˈzuː.mər/us/ˈzuː.mɚ/Zoomernoun[C](GENERATION)
(alsozoomer)
a way of referring to apersonwho wasbornin the late 1990s or early 2000s:
Millennials and Zoomers aren’tparentsandchildrenrespectivelybutrathersiblings, oneolderand oneyounger, bothforgedby theinternet.
GenerationZ consists of thosepeople(alsoknownas zoomers) who werebornbetween 1997 and 2012.
Thiscolouris sometimes called Zoomergreentoreferencethegenerationwhowearsit.
See also
Generation Z
Compare
Generation X
Generation Y
baby boomer
boomer
millennial
- Themediaarefascinatedby theconflictbetween millennials and Zoomers.
- He said that while Millennials had tolearnnewtechafter it came along, Zoomers “have had all the newtechsince they werebabies.”
Describing age & birthdays
- age
- age group
- age limit
- aged
- babyboomer
- gone
- junior
- knock
- millennial
- nonagenarian
- octogenarian
- old
- ripe
- senior
- sixties
- something
- spring chicken
- take years offsomeoneidiom
- teens
- this side ofsomethingidiom
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Groups of people
Zoomernoun[C](SOFTWARE USER)
apersonusingZoom(= abrandnameforcomputersoftwarethatallowsagroupof two or morepeopletoseeandtalkto each other over theinternetusingtheircomputers,tablets, orsmartphones):
Get toknowall theoptionsthat areavailableand you’ll be the most clued-up Zoomer onyournextvideochat.
- Amid theseaofdesktopusersthere may be alonesmartphoneZoomer.
- In somevideomeetings, you’ll comeacrossa Zoomer whosevolumeisturnedup so high that you canhearyourself through herequipment.
Computer programming & software
- abandonware
- ad-blocker
- ad-blocking
- adware
- analytics
- cheat
- facial recognition
- facial recognition software
- femtech
- file system
- garbage collector
- infection
- planner
- routine
- software package
- spellchecker
- splash screen
- story mode
- syntactic
- syntactically
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Operating computers