Pepsi generation
originally and chiefly US
noun
The generation of people in their teens and early twenties in the mid to late 1960s, regarded as a demographic group.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), novelist and poet (real name Jean-Louis Kerouac). With allusion to a 1963–7 Pepsi advertising slogan, ‘Come alive! You're in the Pepsi generation’.
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