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beatnik
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun beatnik has 1 sense
- beatnik(n = noun.person) beat - a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior; Array is a member of beat generation, beatniks, beats
is a kind of nonconformist, recusant
CIDE DICTIONARY
beatnik, n.
a member of the Beat Generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
beatnik, n. a member of the beat generation (see BEAT).
Etymology
BEAT + -nik after sputnik, perh. infl. by US use of Yiddish -nik agent-suffix
THESAURUS
beatnik
Bohemian, deviant, dissenter, dropout, flower child, freak, heretic, hippie, maverick, misfit, nonconformist, nonjuror, original, sectarian, sectary, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, yippie
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