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boomer
Austral a large male kangaroo

boomer [′büm·ər]
(engineering)
A device used to tighten chains on pipe or other equipment loaded on a truck to make the cargo secure.
(mining engineering)
In placer mining, an automatic gate in a dam that holds the water until the reservoir is filled, then opens automatically and allows the escape of such a volume that the soil and upper gravel of the placer are washed away.


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Each day, some 10,000 boomers turn 50 and another 8,000 turn 60, according to The Boomer Project, a three-year-old firm dedicated to teaching insurance professionals and others how to serve this generation.
No doubt some opportunistic rightwing scribe is energetically pitching Regnery Press on the merits of prosecuting Boomers for their various crimes against humanity, even as some third party is pounding out an even-handed assessment.
The Cochran Baby Boomer Quiz was designed as an evaluative tool for boomers and recreation professionals.
 
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