Generation Jones

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s; they are the younger subset of the baby boomers but are sometimes conceptualized as being sandwiched between the older subset of baby boomers and Gen-Xers.

Word forms

Generation Jones

Etymology

Coined by author Jonathan Pontell, from jonesing (“intense craving”).

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