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Generation X
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Gen·er·a·tion X  (jn-rshn)
n.
The generation following the post-World War II baby boom, especially people born in the United States and Canada from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.

[After Generation X, a novel by Douglas Coupland (born 1961), Canadian writer.]

Generation Xer (eksr) n.

Generation X
n
(Sociology) members of the generation of people born between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s who are highly educated and underemployed, reject consumer culture, and have little hope for the future
[from the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland]
Generation Xer  n
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Noun1.Generation X - the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)generation X - the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)
generation - group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent


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They straddle the boundary line between last-wave Boomers and first-wave Generation Xers.
Daryl Green, a Generation Xer, investigates societal issues facing everyday Americans.
Yet, too often, Generation Xers are doing anything but leaping at the chance to advance.
 
 
 
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