WordNet
n. the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s) [syn: gen X]
Wikipedia
Generation X (commonly abbreviated to Gen X) is the generational cohort following the baby boomers. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use starting birth years ranging from the early to mid-1960s and ending birth years ranging from the late 1970s to early 1980s.
Generation X is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A spin-off of the X-Men, the team was created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Chris Bachalo. Generation X debuted during the 1994 " Phalanx Covenant" storyline, and appeared in their own monthly series in September 1994 with Generation X #1 (November 1994).
Generation X consisted of teenage mutants designed to reflect the cynicism and complexity of the series' namesake demographic. Unlike its predecessor the New Mutants, the team was not mentored by X-Men founder Charles Xavier at his New York estate, but by Banshee and former supervillainess Emma Frost at a splinter school in western Massachusetts.
The book's original creators left it in 1997. The series was cancelled with issue #75 in 2001.
Generation X is the demographic cohort following baby boomers.
Generation X may also refer to:
- Generation X (1965 book), a book on popular youth culture by Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson
- Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, a 1991 novel by Douglas Coupland
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Generation X (band), a 1970s/1980s punk band fronted by Billy Idol
- Generation X (album), an album by the band
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Generation X (comics), a comic book series published by Marvel Comics
- Generation X (film), a 1996 TV movie based on the comics
- D-Generation X, a World Wrestling Entertainment professional wrestling stable
- "X Generation", a song by Pennywise from the album All or Nothing
Generation X (also known as Gen X) were an English punk rock band, formed on 21 November 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe.
Generation X was the eponymous first album from Generation X and was produced by Martin Rushent and released in 1978. The album contained the UK hit single "Ready Steady Go" which reached No. 47 in the chart in March 1978. The album itself peaked at No.29 on August 4. When it was originally released in the USA, it featured a different track listing, omitting three songs and adding three songs from singles and " Gimme Some Truth", a rare studio cover of a John Lennon song. The album was later remastered and re-released in 2002 with the original UK track listing, and six bonus tracks from singles. "Kiss Me Deadly" was used in the soundtrack of the 1998 movie SLC Punk.
Generation X is a made-for-TV film directed by Jack Sholder, which aired on FOX on February 20, 1996. It is based on the Marvel Comics comic-book series Generation X, a spin-off of the X-Men franchise. It was produced by New World Entertainment and Marvel Entertainment.
Generation X is a 1965 165-page book on popular youth culture by British journalists, Jane Deverson and Charles Hamblett. It contains interviews with teenagers who were part of the Mod subculture. It began as a series of interviews in a 1964 study of British youth, commissioned by British lifestyle magazine Woman's Own where Deverson worked. The interviews detailed a culture of promiscuous and anti-establishment youth, and was seen as inappropriate for the magazine.
Generation X, a punk rock band that English musician Billy Idol formed in 1976, was named after the book—a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.
Usage examples of "generation x".
In a crisp white shirt and bow tie and the kind of suspenders the Generation X bankers were now wearing.
In fashionably baggy T-shirts and prewashed jeans, they were an Asian Generation X that on late Sunday mornings packed the Mah Boon Krong mall to buy compact discs and cordless miniphones—.
I said to the new graduates at Butler University, not much older than Lily, that they were being called Generation X, two clicks from the end, but that they were as much Generation A as Adam and Eve had been.