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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sudden, large, sustained increase in the birthrate, especially the one from the later 1940s through the early 1960s.
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- noun singular only The increase in the birth rate following the return of
servicemen at the end ofWorld War II . - noun Any similar increase in the birth rate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
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