0 an important social or political change that is started by young people: --
Some commentators predict a "youthquake" in the coming elections.
People quickly attributed the party's success to a "youthquake".
The term "youthquake" was coined in 1965 by Diana Vreeland, then editor of Vogue magazine.
We were the youthquake: the sexual revolution, pop music, the start of the technological age.
He writes that the youthquake of the 1960s pulled down social barriers and overthrew elitism.