[Ads-l] OK Boomer

[Martin Purdy]

First time I heard this expression was in reporting from the New Zealand Parliament recently, when the curiously-spelled MP Chlöe Swarbrick used it to silence an older heckler:
The world is obsessed with Chlöe Swarbrick's 'OK, boomer' jibe

Previously I'd only known "boomer" (without the prefixed "baby") as a term for a male red kangaroo.

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The world is obsessed with Chlöe Swarbrick's 'OK, boomer' jibe

Chlöe Swarbrick thought her 'OK, boomer' jibe would kill the meme. Instead, it's gone global.
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Martin PurdyNZ
 

    On Thursday, November 14, 2019, 10:42:55 AM GMT+13, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 Is anyone able to provide any information about the origins of the phrase "OK Boomer"?  My sense is that it is becoming very popular, and people talk about it like it's been around for a while, but when I do a LexisNexis search the earliest use I seem to find is Oct. 29 of this year.

Fred Shapiro

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