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Coined by author Jonathan Pontell, from jonesing (“intense craving”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Generation Jones
Today it means: 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. Full definition →