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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beats::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beat generation, beatniks |
| Type of | youth subculture |
Examples of beats
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The beats are catchy, and they sell a certain lifestyle and image to their fans.
From the kentucky.com
Accounting may be dull, but as Kurokawa knows, it sure beats being a fishmonger.
From the businessweek.com
Afterwards, the data from different heart beats have to be combined into a film.
From the sciencedaily.com
Each time the heart beats, the valves open, like the swinging doors of a saloon.
From the theepochtimes.com
Bread sure beats hard-baked flour paste-just ask your nearest Passover observer.
From the theatlantic.com
Friedel beats away a Faurlin shot and Spurs concede a corner shortly afterwards.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Like Beck, he fluidly mixes his singer-songwriter folk roots with hip-hop beats.
From the bostonherald.com
Paris beats London when it comes to well-priced centrally located accommodation.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Then up the other end Hooper beats Bougherra on the outside but scuffs his shot.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
- All in(p): very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
- Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- Pulse: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
- Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
- Hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
- Swatch Internet Time (or beat time) is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 and marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative, decimal measure of time. ...
- Beat is a Japanese movie released in Japan in 1998, directed by Amon Miyamoto, set in the 60's in Okinawa. It was screened at critics week at the 1998 Venice film festival.
- Beat is an American made movie, produced in 2000, concerning the part of the life of writer William S. Burroughs that he spent with his wife, the late Joan Vollmer.
