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                                	beat a retreat |
                                	beat about |
                                	beat around the bush |
                                	beat back |
                                	beat down |
                                beat generation
                                	| beat in 
                                	| beat it 
                                	| beat off 
                                	| beat out 
                                	| beat the drum 
                            
        beat generation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun beat generation has 1 sense
- beat generation(n = noun.group) beatniks, beats - 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); Array is a kind of youth subculture
 
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