boomlet

English

Etymology

boom +‎ -let

Noun

boomlet (plural boomlets)

  1. (chiefly finance) A small period of rapid growth.
    • 1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time‎:
      This is the twentysomething generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing.
    • 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
      There was a boomlet in fitness centers as corporations sweetened their programs to pay for part of their employees' gym memberships […] .
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