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- noun Plural form of
beatnik .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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)
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Examples
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San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen had nicknamed "beatniks" -
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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The Beat Generation is a term used to describe both a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called "beatniks").
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Host your own Beat Generation poetry reading 2008
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Others known for their creative resistances to 'mass think' include Mark Twain and later Lenny Bruce, the 'beatniks', hippies, and Viet Nam war resisters.
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Even the pictures of "beatniks," American bohemia, did not spoil the coziness of this place.
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So when we got to the Bowery end of Bleecker Street, we found many guys with beards, but we didn't think these were the kind of beatniks we were looking for.
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Sometimes in the evenings she dropped in to Pasea's coffeeshop, where Port Arthur's "beatniks" hung out.
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973
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They were the "beatniks" or "hippies" of antiquity: they had opted out not only from the rat race but from civilization itself.
PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY E. R. DODDS 1968
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Malvina first wrote "beatniks," then updated it to
Singin Jesus Malvina Reynolds 1964
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They were called "beatniks" and can be credited with starting the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
LearnHub Activities 2009
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Popularly known as "beatniks," the museum tells the story of the poets and writers who left an indelible mark on the literary world.
unknown title 2009
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