Definitions
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- noun A
boomerang child .
Etymologies
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boomerang + -er
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Examples
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In a way, anger is a boomerang -- so much so that we could rename it "boomeranger."
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The typical stay is so long that researchers don't even count someone as a boomeranger until they've been home four months.
BlogHer - Comments Lara32fu 2010
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Until there's a job offer, this boomeranger says there's no place like home.
palooka commented on the word boomeranger
An adult child who returns home to live with his or her baby-boomer parents per Word Spy
April 14, 2007