boomersplain
(slang, derogatory) To condescendingly explain (something) to a younger person as a baby boomer.
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(slang, derogatory) To condescendingly explain (something) to a younger person as a baby boomer.
But there hasn’t been much of a collective critique of Generation X since the early 1990s, when the media decided that we were inveterate slackers, and Time magazine boomersplained that Xers “have few heroes, no anthems, no style to call…
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