boomerang kid
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[edit]Noun
[edit]boomerang kid (plural boomerang kids)
- (originally US, informal) A young adult who has moved back into the parental home after a period of independence.
- Synonyms: boomerang baby, boomerang child, boomeranger
- 1987, Jean Davies Okimoto, Phyllis Jackson Stegall, Boomerang Kids: How to Live with Adult Children Who Return Home, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
- 1998 July, Kimberly Lankford, “The Right Insurance at the Right Price” (magazine article), in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Volume 52, Number 7, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., ISSN 1528-9729, page 79:
- Gerhard and Gale Kappe, an Oak Park, Ill., couple with two boomerang kids at home, could save more than $1,700.
Translations
[edit]young adult who moved back into parental home
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Mitchell, B.A. (2007). The Boomerang Age: Transitions to Adulthood in Families. NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Further reading
[edit]- Boomerang Generation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “boomerang kid, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.