beat generation

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Noun beat generation has 1 sense

beat generation, beats, beatniks - 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)
--₁ is a kind of youth subculture
--₁ has members: beatnik, beat

beat-up beat beat a retreat beat about beat about the bush beat around the bush beat back beat down beat generation beat in beat it beat on beat one s head beat out beat predicate beat something out of someone beat the crap

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