Meanings
- derogatoryhumorousslanguncountableCOVID-19 (“the disease”) or SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”).
This was supposed to be the #BoomerRemover .... they truly are the worst generation.
2021 March 30, Surgical Sister, Twitter, archived from the original on 30 Mar 20213 more examples
We’re being instructed to return COVID possible patients back to their “3 per room” SNF prior to receiving test results. […] Fuck, they're taking #boomerremover seriously
2020 March 16, SliverMcSilverson, “Anyone else seeing this”, in RedditOn February 29 this year, Twitter user @nurselietv posted the tweet “I heard someone call the coronavirus the ‘boomer remover’.”
2020 March 17, Anne Acuña, “Internet riled up over cruel new Gen-Z, Millennial clapback calling COVID-19 as ‘Boomer Remover’”, in InqPop!Ageism has been blamed for islands of death in nursing homes (Mueller, 2020), and for a spike in intergenerational animosity, as captured in internet epithets such as “grandma/grandpa killer,” “boomer remover,” and “boomer doomer” (pre-Covid-19; “coffin dodger”).
2021, Bronwen Lichtenstein, “From “Coffin Dodger” to “Boomer Remover”: Outbreaks of Ageism in Three Countries With Divergent Approaches to Coronavirus Control”, in The Journals of Gerontology, series b, →DOI
Origin
From being an agent that removes baby boomers from the living population, i.e. kills them, as older people are more susceptible to the virus. (See quotations below.)
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
boomer remover. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boomer%20remover
“boomer remover.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boomer%20remover. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boomer remover,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boomer%20remover.
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