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beatnik Definition


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beatnik
noun
    1. A young person with scruffy or unconventional clothes, long hair, unusual lifestyle, etc.
      Thesaurus: Bohemian, rebel, radical, dropout, maverick, iconoclast, beat, (slang) hippie, long-hair.
    2. In the 1950s and 60s: a member or follower of the beat generation, who rejected the accepted social and political ideas, etc of the time.
Etymology: 1950s: beat (adj) + -nik.



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