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Generation X

noun

Definition of Generation X

: the generation of Americans born in the 1960s and 1970s
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Generation Xer

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1989

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Generation X

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Definition of Generation X for English Language Learners

  • : the group of people in the U.S. who were born during the late 1960s and the 1970s

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