youthquake
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "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."