Generation Jones
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English
Etymology
Coined by author Jonathan Pontell, from jonesing (“intense craving”).[1]
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.
- Generation Jones listened to a lot of classic rock when young.
- 2011, Tracy D. Connors, The Volunteer Management Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
- The later cohort of Generation Jones really seems to combine some Baby Boom qualities with those of later generational cohorts.
Hypernyms
- baby boomers (usually hypernymous)
Derived terms
Translations
generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s
See also
| Timeline of generations |
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References
- ^ Jonathan Pontell (2009 January 27) “Stuck in the middle”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 2013-11-09: “But above all, the name borrows from the slang term "jonesin' " that we as teens popularized to broadly convey any intense craving.”
Further reading
Generation Jones on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
