beatniks Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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)
    beats; beat generation.
  2. noun a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
    beat; beatnik.

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