Generation Jones

English

Etymology

Coined by author Jonathan Pontell, from jonesing (“intense craving”).[1]

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.
    • 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.

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See also
Timeline of generations
Generation AlphazoomerGeneration ZmillennialGeneration YMTV generationGeneration XGeneration Jonesbaby boomerSilent GenerationG.I. Generationgreatest generation

References
  1. 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.”

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