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GENERATION X
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Dictionary entry overview: What does generation X mean?
• GENERATION X (noun)
The noun GENERATION X has 1 sense:
1. the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)
Familiarity information: GENERATION X used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
gen X; generation X
Hypernyms ("generation X" is a kind of...):
generation (group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent)
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