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• Beat Generation, the
  1. the group of young people in the 1950s, including the writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, who refused to accept the values of Western society, and showed this by refusing to work, keeping no material possessions, and wearing their own style of clothes
• Generation X
  1. young people in the 1990s, seen as not having any strong beliefs, not being involved in their society, and making no plans for the future
• Generation Y
  1. people born in or after 1980
• Lost Generation, the
  1. the young men who were killed in World War I, who could have been successful in art, science, literature etc
  2. all the people who became adults during or just after World War I, and who suffered great social and emotional disadvantages as a result
• baby-boom generation (noun)
  1. the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
• beat generation (noun)
  1. e.g., bebop a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favoured modern forms of jazz
• first generation (noun)
  1. people who have moved to live in a new country, or the children of these people
  2. the first type of a machine to be developed
• first-generation (adjective)
  1. having immigrant parents
  2. of or relating to the initial version of a class of products
• generation 1.5 (noun)
  1. people born and living in the US, whose parents originally come from a foreign country and have not learnt to speak English properly. Generation 1.5 children are able to speak English well, but talk in the language spoken by their parents when they are at home.
• generation X (noun)
  1. especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s the generation following the baby boom
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