beatnik
(sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
a person who rejects or avoids conventional behavior, dress, etc.
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While the plan has room for a few beatniks and a couple comparatively progressive intellectuals, most recruits are assigned to take on traditional roles of the era.
Leaving modern NYC for 1950s cult experiment | Patrick Folliard | October 6, 2022 | Washington BladeGuggenheim pulled the confirmed bachelor into her coven of beatnik friends.
Casa de la Torre: The Museum of Mexico’s Liberace | Brandon Presser | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter World War II, the Village went through an enormous renaissance as the bohemian beatnik art place.
Why Did Llewyn Davis’s Greenwich Village Disappear? | Andrew Romano | December 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAt an underground party, Joyce introduced Peggy to her friend Abe Drexler (Charlie Hofheimer), a beatnik journalist.
‘Mad Men’ Premiere: Before Season 5, Let's Remember Season 4 | Jace Lacob | March 22, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThat was the only place in town, as I understood, from the reports, outside of the beatnik place they could.
Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
He was far, far different than the laughing, beatnik jabbering, youngster he had always seemed.
Black Man's Burden | Dallas McCord Reynolds
British Dictionary definitions for beatnik
/ (ˈbiːtnɪk) /
a member of the Beat Generation (sense 1)
informal any person with long hair and shabby clothes
Origin of beatnik
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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