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Revision as of 18:27, 12 May 2009
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
- David Wells, a Major League Baseball pitcher nicknamed "Boomer"
- Boomer Phillips, a comedian and tv personality
Fictional creations
- Owen Mercer, nickname for 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
- The Boomer, an infected boss in the 2008 first-person shooter game Left 4 Dead
- A species of the Locust Horde in the Gears of War series, a third person shooter made by Epic Games
- A commandeered and renamed Pfhor starship in the Marathon games
- The Bomb Pixl from Super Paper Mario
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 Australia (men's) 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
- A slang term for Psilocybin mushrooms
- Audio subsystem of OpenSolaris.