Generation Jones

English Etymology en author Jonathan Pontell - 1, from en jonesing intense craving.en https://web.archive.org/web/20131109202646/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm 2013-11-09 http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm USA Today Stuck in the middle Jonathan Pontell But above all, the name borrows from the slang term "jonesin' " that we as teens popularized to broadly convey any intense craving. 2009-01-27 Proper noun Generation Jones 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. en Generation Jones listened to a lot of classic rock when young. en Tracy D. Connors The Volunteer Management Handbook 2011 John Wiley & Sons https://books.google.com/books?id=VSDKsVv87i0C&pg=PT140&dq=%22Generation+Jones%22&hl=en&cd=11&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Generation%20Jones%22&f=false 978-1-118-12742-1 The later cohort of Generation Jones really seems to combine some Baby Boom qualities with those of later generational cohorts. Hypernyms en baby boomers usually hypernymous Derived terms en Joneser Translations generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s Polish: pl pokolenie Jones n See also jones en sandwich generation References Further reading en Age Collectives Generations Sociology