Citations:boomer remover

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) COVID-19 characterized as a cull of older generations"



 * 2020, Michael Schulman, "Convincing Boomer Parents to Take the Coronavirus Seriously", The New Yorker, 16 March 2020:
 * Some less charitable youngsters have even renamed the virus the “boomer remover.”




 * 2020, Deborah Paul, "Sign this coronavirus social distancing pledge spearheaded by a Palos Verdes Peninsula teen", Palos Verdes Peninsula News, 26 March 2020:
 * They think the “boomer remover” doesn’t apply to the under 25 crowd, but a recent Center for Disease Control report shows up to 20 percent of people hospitalized with the novel coronavirus in the U.S. are young adults.
 * 2020, Katharine Murphy, "After the coronavirus, Australia and the world can never be the same again", The Guardian, 27 March 2020:
 * Unless you are young and sanguine enough to believe coronavirus is either a beat-up or a “boomer remover” and therefore it’s business as usual, you are either ill or deeply anxious about getting ill and infecting others.
 * 2020, Janice Carmac, "Janice Carmac, Week 3: Quarantined with teens, three weeks in", Greensboro News & Record, 4 April 2020:
 * Her grandfather dropped off a few rolls of toilet paper one morning. “Hope you don’t get the boomer remover,” Noël wrote in the thank you note I had the girls compose. I asked my husband if she should reword the card and he said no. It seemed funny two weeks ago.