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beatnik
[ beet-nik ]
noun
- (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
- a person who rejects or avoids conventional behavior, dress, etc.
beatnik
/ ˈbiːtnɪk /
noun
- a member of the Beat Generation (sense 1)
- informal.any person with long hair and shabby clothes
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Example Sentences
Guggenheim pulled the confirmed bachelor into her coven of beatnik friends.
After World War II, the Village went through an enormous renaissance as the bohemian beatnik art place.
At an underground party, Joyce introduced Peggy to her friend Abe Drexler (Charlie Hofheimer), a beatnik journalist.
That was the only place in town, as I understood, from the reports, outside of the beatnik place they could.
He was far, far different than the laughing, beatnik jabbering, youngster he had always seemed.
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