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Beatniks

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Noun

1. beat generation, beatniks, beats

a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Beatniks

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noun
1. 
a member of the Beat Generation (sense 1)
2. informal
any person with long hair and shabby clothes

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Beatniks

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noun
a member of the beat group

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Beatniks

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n.
A person, especially a member or follower of the Beat Generation, whose behavior, views, and often style of dress are pointedly unconventional.

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