Beatniks

Common synonyms include: beat generation, beats, bohemian, counterculture figure, derogation, epithet.

noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
plural of beatnik form-of, plural
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

"Tom's grandparents were beatniks."