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Generation Jones

Generation Jones proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Generation Jones

  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.
    • 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.2011, Tracy D. Connors, The Volunteer Management Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

Origin of Generation Jones

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

Words formed from Generation Jones

Questions about Generation Jones

What does Generation Jones mean?
Generation Jones means 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.
What part of speech is Generation Jones?
Generation Jones is a proper noun.

Words near Generation Jones in the dictionary

  1. generation effect
  2. generation effects
  3. Generation Facebook
  4. generation gap
  5. generation gaps
  6. Generation Jones
  7. Generation K
  8. generation loss
  9. generation losses
  10. Generation Next
  11. generation ship

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