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baby boom

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[baby boom] {n.}

A sudden increase in the birth rate.

* /The universities were filled to capacity due to the baby boom that followed World War II./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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