beatnik
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9.0
- noun
- /ˈbiːtnɪk/
- Archaic
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beatnik
- Uh, she's kind of a beatnik, isn't she?
- beatniks and hippies
- beatnik look
- beatnik coffeehouses
And I quote, actual beatniks sitting around.
- And I quote, actual beatniks sitting around.
Examples
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If I'd known we were going to a beatnik joint for coffee and word-jazz, I'd have worn my black tights.
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Ace is a gentle aging beatnik with mild Tourette's.
Fiction book (1993) -
- Is he a beatnik ?
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The beatnik lawyer, is she even 18?
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"It's hard for me to see you as some sort of beatnik living in San Francisco, Mom.
Fiction book (2000) -
He looks like a beatnik.
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Jack Wander looked for all the world like what was known in the late fifties as a beatnik.
Fiction book (2000) -
One of my dearest best friends who's no longer alive was Philip Whelan, the beatnik poet and Zen priest.
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Well, the Hindus say—and the beatniks also—that in the next life some of us will come back as ants.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the 1960s, he dyed his hair and adopted the unconventional style typical of a beatnik.
Synonyms
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9.6
A writer or artist from the Beat Generation of the 1950s
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7.1
A person who lives like an artist and ignores normal social rules
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word beatnik puts together beat, a word the Beat writers used to mean 'tired or worn down', and the ending -nik, a Russian-style suffix made famous by Sputnik that means 'person connected with'. So a beatnik is someone linked to the Beat movement — a young, artistic person who lived in a different way and did not follow normal rules.