beatnik

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: a person who participated in a social movement of the 1950s and early 1960s which stressed artistic self-expression and the rejection of the mores of conventional societybroadly : a usually young and artistic person who rejects the mores of conventional society

Examples of beatnik in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the WebThe chances of finding a springbok in the National Museum were about as strong as finding a beatnik on a bog road between Balleybofey and Lifford.— Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021Stand-up partially originated in the Village in the 1950s, in coffeehouses where folk musicians and beatnik poets entertained too.— Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Apr. 2020But that generation-defining gesture isn’t just the stale move of a 1950s beatnik.— New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020See More

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First Known Use of beatnik

1958, in the meaning defined above