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)
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beatniks::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beat generation, beats |
| Type of | youth subculture |
Examples of beatniks
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If Chicago still had hipsters and beatniks, this is where they would hang out.
From the businessweek.com
Oglesby hung out with Kent State's beatniks and immersed himself in poetry and jazz.
From the nytimes.com
Fancy watching a film about groovy London beatniks eating a tin of cat food?
From the independent.co.uk
Certainly they are not as visible from a passing car as beatniks or hippies once were.
From the time.com
The beatniks are mostly dead now, or at least embarrassed to be associated with the word.
From the newsobserver.com
We've had yuppies and hippies, preppies and punks, beatniks and slackers.
From the time.com
Fifty years on, modern-day beatniks are all Berlin, Berlin, Berlin.
From the guardian.co.uk
And, he says, the saloon was home to more bohemians than beatniks.
From the sfgate.com
The Norwegians want to know if the beatniks really wrote their poetry and fiction at Vesuvio's.
From the sfgate.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
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