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Generation Jones en · PROPN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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:

Deriveds

Joneser

Hypernyms

baby boomers

Relateds

sandwich generation

Translations (1)

pl pokolenie Jones (generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s)