noun
the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)
• Syn: ↑generation X
• Hypernyms: ↑generation
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/jen" eks"/.
See Generation X.
Also, GenX, Gen-X.
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Generation X or Gen X,
the generation following the baby boom generation, especially those born in the 1960s and 1970s, coming of age in North America: »
Maybe it's the pandemic shrug of Generation X, the futility felt by the young when analyzed to death by self-styled experts (Rolling Stone).
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/ˈʤɛnˈɛks/ noun [noncount]
— often hyphenated and used before a noun
a Gen-X celebrity
Gen Xer /ˈʤɛnˈɛksɚ/ noun, pl ⋯ Xers [count]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.