EGAVE

beatnik

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.
  2. noun A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
  3. noun ↑ Caen, Herb (2 April 1958), “Words, Words, Words”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 4 March 2012

Similar words

hipsters beatnikery bohemian beat hipster gegger punkster brohemian hippie boho

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Word family

beatniks

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