Generation X

Speech parts

1. Generation X - Noun

2. Generation X - Proper noun

Meaning

the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)

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I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to. Ethan Hawke

Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the video store. Roger Ebert

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope. Alanis Morissette

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. William Gibson

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face. Erik Qualman

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women. Dave Sim

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