"Generation Jones" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: Coined by author Jonathan Pontell, from jonesing (“intense craving”). Etymology templates: {{coin|en|Jonathan Pontell|nobycat=1|occ=author|w=-}} Coined by author Jonathan Pontell, {{m|en|jonesing|t=intense craving}} jonesing (“intense craving”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Generation Jones}} 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. Categories (topical): Age, Collectives, Generations, Sociology Hypernyms: baby boomers (english: usually hypernymous) Derived forms: Joneser Related terms: sandwich generation
    Sense id: en-Generation_Jones-en-name-xwVu7l7J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English quotations with omitted translation

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