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Generation Jones

name

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. The generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s

    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.

    • Generation Jones listened to a lot of classic rock when young.
    • The later cohort of Generation Jones really seems to combine some Baby Boom qualities with those of later generational cohorts.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA