youthquake

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
29
Words With Friends
29
Letters
10

Definition of youthquake

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (informal)A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.
    “Britain produced many of the first temblors of the youthquake. There were the elegantly dressed but often vicious Teddy boys of the late 1950s. There were the gentler Mods and the tough leather-jacketed, working-class rockers in the '60s.”
    “The trend was partly a manifestation of the Silicon Valley youthquake that was powering the dot-com economy.”

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Etymology

From youth + quake, by analogy with earthquake. Coined by American magazine editor Diana Vreeland in 1965.

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39 words

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2-letter words

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