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Generation Y

name

Etymology

Using Y as the letter that follows X, as in Generation X.

Definitions

  1. The generation of people born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s following Generation…

    The generation of people born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s following Generation X.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Generation Y.

    • Life is hard for generation Y. We intern for aeons to secure an underpaid job in a shrinking market, while watching affordable housing become a rarer phenomenon than a boss who won't resent us for knowing what a meme is.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Generation Y. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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