Generation Zedder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Generation Zedders
Senses: examples: text: On a high wall in the corner of Social Chain’s Manchester office, with a look of serene exasperation, Jesus Christ looks down on the sea of millennials and Generation Zedders (or whatever the dominant term is for the under-20s this month) tapping out tweets and social media stories.
ref: 2018 January 14, Simon Parkin, “Inside Britain’s meme factory”, in The Observer, page 17:
text: So we’re still not online as moving day approaches and it’s looking like our new digs won’t be digital right away. I break it to Youngest Child, a Generation Zedder raised by the interweb, that we may be temporarily off-grid.
ref: 2019 September 28, Janet Christie, “Youngest solves the no wi-fi issue in our new home: Mum’s the word”, in The Scotsman, page 8:
text: Linguistic experts say young people – Generation Zedders, so those in their early 20s and teens – have got a thing about full stops at the end of text messages.
ref: 2020 September 1, Nicola Whitfield, “Sorry, kids, the full stop is here to stay. Period.”, in News24, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2020:
text: Imagine showing this programme to someone currently in their teens and saying: “There you go, sonny. That’s what you Generation Zedders are missing out on. Jealous?”
ref: 2020 November 6, Mike Ward, “Annie’s a punk shocker”, in Daily Express, page 39:
text: So: congratulations millennials and Generation Zedders: we did it! We finally have our before and after, the one we will be experts on when it comes to passing wisdom on to our anticipated grand-younglings and beyond. For ours is the kingdom of Covid-19 and its aftermath in an increasingly totalitarian world, amen.
ref: 2021 January 1, “What a spectacular year 2020 has been; we have Covid to thank for it”, in The East African, Nation Media Group:
text: Cord cutting is becoming a thing in the United States as Generation ‘Zedders’ and Millennials ditch free-to-air and cable broadcasters to consume all their media, including sport, through streaming apps on their various devices.
ref: 2021 July 1, Ashley Browne, “Tell ’em they’re streaming”, in AFL Record, page 102:
text: Research shows that only 14 per cent of Generation Zedders have enough spare cash to weather rising prices, compared to 52 per cent of Millennials (in their 30s), 64 per cent of Generation X (in their 40s and 50s), which probably includes your parents, and 60 per cent of Baby Boomers (the post-war generation now in their 60s).
ref: 2022 February 28, Michael Kennedy, “How much longer can our finances stand these spiralling rises?”, in The Irish News, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2022:
text: We have become hopelessly entangled in our ability to express ourselves clearly over fundamental matters of biology. Younger people, Generation Zedders, have a pragmatic view of these matters. They all know who they are and are not fussed by new definitions, and neither should the older generations.
ref: 2022 June 1, Harvey Fewings, “Generational Change: Fundamental to the Human Story”, in The LOCAL News, number 7, page 8, columns 3–4:
text: Back in the 80s he [Ben Elton] was one of the angry young things of alternative comedy, but this time he was hosting up-and-coming acts. ‘It just goes to show that Boomers and Generation Zedders can get on after all!’
ref: 2023 May 27, Cole Moreton, Ray Burmiston, “I had to tell my kids never to Google me!: He’s just won a BAFTA and is about to star in a West End musical. Quite a turnaround, admits Ben Elton, the motormouth comic whose career went spectacularly off-key…”, in Daily Mail, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of Generation Zer.