Generation Jones

Meaning

Proper Noun

• The generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s, sandwiched between baby boomers and Gen-Xers.

Origin

• , from jonesing.{{cite-journal
• |en
• |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109202646/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm
• |archivedate=2013-11-09
• |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm
• |work=USA Today
• |title=Stuck in the middle
• |author=Jonathan Pontell
• |passage=But above all, the name borrows from the slang term "jonesin' " that we as teens popularized to broadly convey any intense craving.
• |date=2009-01-27