"Generation Zedder" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Generation Zedders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|nolinkhead=1}} Generation Zedder (plural Generation Zedders)
  1. Alternative form of Generation Zer. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Generation Zer Categories (topical): Generations
    Sense id: en-Generation_Zedder-en-noun-qNB~aTxb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2018 January 14, Simon Parkin, “Inside Britain’s meme factory”, in The Observer, page 17:",
          "text": "On a high wall in the corner of Social Chain’s Manchester office, with a look of serene exasperation, Jesus Christ looks down on the sea of millennials and Generation Zedders (or whatever the dominant term is for the under-20s this month) tapping out tweets and social media stories.",
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          "ref": "2019 September 28, Janet Christie, “Youngest solves the no wi-fi issue in our new home: Mum’s the word”, in The Scotsman, page 8:",
          "text": "So we’re still not online as moving day approaches and it’s looking like our new digs won’t be digital right away. I break it to Youngest Child, a Generation Zedder raised by the interweb, that we may be temporarily off-grid.",
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          "ref": "2021 January 1, “What a spectacular year 2020 has been; we have Covid to thank for it”, in The East African, Nation Media Group:",
          "text": "So: congratulations millennials and Generation Zedders: we did it! We finally have our before and after, the one we will be experts on when it comes to passing wisdom on to our anticipated grand-younglings and beyond. For ours is the kingdom of Covid-19 and its aftermath in an increasingly totalitarian world, amen.",
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          "ref": "2021 July 1, Ashley Browne, “Tell ’em they’re streaming”, in AFL Record, page 102:",
          "text": "Cord cutting is becoming a thing in the United States as Generation ‘Zedders’ and Millennials ditch free-to-air and cable broadcasters to consume all their media, including sport, through streaming apps on their various devices.",
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          "text": "We have become hopelessly entangled in our ability to express ourselves clearly over fundamental matters of biology. Younger people, Generation Zedders, have a pragmatic view of these matters. They all know who they are and are not fussed by new definitions, and neither should the older generations.",
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          "ref": "2023 May 27, Cole Moreton, Ray Burmiston, “I had to tell my kids never to Google me!: He’s just won a BAFTA and is about to star in a West End musical. Quite a turnaround, admits Ben Elton, the motormouth comic whose career went spectacularly off-key…”, in Daily Mail, page 4:",
          "text": "Back in the 80s he [Ben Elton] was one of the angry young things of alternative comedy, but this time he was hosting up-and-coming acts. ‘It just goes to show that Boomers and Generation Zedders can get on after all!’",
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