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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   plural of beat form-of, plural
2. 2
   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) wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   third-person singular simple present indicative of beat form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A diminutive of the female given names Beatrice or Beatrix.

Synonyms

All synonyms

beat generationbeat generationbeatniks

Example

More examples

"Nothing beats a big glass of beer in summer."

Etymology

Clipping of Beatrice or Beatrix + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

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