DCHP-3

boomster

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†n.

a person who creates enthusiasm for an undertaking; a promoter; boomer (def. 1).

See: boomer(def. 1)

Quotations

1908
Between seven and eight hundred people had gone up to these regions via Edmonton, bound for the Yukon, many of whom, after a tale of suffering which might have filled its boomsters' souls with remorse, had found solitary graves. . . .
2n.

one of the crowd of people who flock to an area that is booming.

Quotations

1928
And so the boomsters fought their way out of the congested purlieus of Saskatchewan and southern Alberta to find breathing-room in the great open spaces of the Peace and the Athabaska.