Generation X (redirected from Generation Xers)

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

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

generation X - the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s) gen X generation - group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent