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beatnik::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beat |
| Type of | nonconformist, recusant |
Examples of beatnik
beatnik
Gareth from that beatnik crusade 20 years ago has come along to keep me company.
From the metro.co.uk
Matalan gives a nifty nod to Prada with this block-pleat beatnik-style minidress.
From the dailymail.co.uk
In his signature beret, Leager looks more like a beatnik artist than a burly brewer.
From the newsobserver.com
Man and woman, advertising sellout and beatnik, these people are champs at tippling.
From the sacbee.com
In the early 1950s, Soho became the centre of the beatnik culture in London.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The raucous and funny low-life reveries of rock's only postmodern beatnik.
From the time.com
I also didn't realize one had to be a 1960s-style Lennonesque beatnik.
From the bostonherald.com
Much stroking of the chin, like some participant in a 50's beatnik film.
From the guardian.co.uk
The beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg was a student whose last rites were performed by Rimpoche.
From the freep.com
- A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- (beatniks) beat generation: 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)
- Beatnik, a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s, was a synthesis of the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s into violent film images, a cartoonish misrepresentation of the real-life people and spiritual aspects in Jack Kerouac's ...
- (Beatniks (novel)) Beatniks: An English Road Movie (1997) is a novel by British author Toby Litt set in Bedford in The United Kingdom in 1995, and concerns the adventures of a group of young people who admire the Beat Writers and Musicians of the 1950s and 1960s America. ...
- (The Beatniks) The Beatniks are a duo formed by Yellow Magic Orchestra drummer/singer Yukihiro Takahashi and Keiichi Suzuki.Ruhlmann, William "", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation The duo's debut album featured vocals mostly in English, with the rest in French.
- (The Beatniks (film)) The Beatniks is a 1960 American film directed by Paul Frees. It was also featured on the movie-mocking program Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- Artistic and literary rebellion against established society of the 1950s and early 1960s, associated with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and others. "Beat" suggests holiness ("beatification") and suffering ("beaten down").
- Person indifferent to society
- Broomstick, carsick, caustic, chopstick, civic, conic, cosmic, cultic, dabchick, drumstick, epic, ethic, fabric, gastric, gnomic, homesick, joystick, maverick, musick, nightstick, nitpick, nitric, pelvic, picnic, pinprick, psychic, rustic, seismic, shashlik, sidekick, slapstick, stearic, tantric ...
