Beatniks
Word | BEATNIKS |
Character | 8 |
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Definitions and meanings of "Beatniks"
What do we mean by beatniks?
A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and therewith is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior
A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
Vintage life-stylists who like the jazz poetry coffee shoppe scene and anything pertaining to the beatnik era Urban Dictionary
A member of the Beat Generation (late 50's - early 60's), a nonconformist in dress and thought. Often reknowned for wearing black turtleneck sweaters, stove-pipe trousers, dark glasses and berets. They used to hang out at coffee shops where they would recite poetry (sometimes accompanied by bongo drums), and talk about jazz or the people/society/regimes that are oppressing them and trying to make them conform. Urban Dictionary
Basically the original, almost forgotten incarnation of the modern day hipster. People think that hipsters are a new thing, but in reality have been around for years, the only difference is that a modern hipster mixes the beatnik style with indie, scene or emo. They were a subculture of (mostly wealthy) young people in the 1950's that drank coffee, enjoyed art and music, wrote poetry, did psychedelic drugs, and smoked cigarettes. Practiced minimalism, and were very, very political. Men wore berets with striped shirts and sandals, and the women wore berets, little black dresses and scarves. Would say slang things like "That's beat" and "daddy-O". Urban Dictionary
Cool 50's youth culture. Wore berets and polo necks. Hung out in coffee shops playing bongos and reciting poetry and experimenting with marijuana.Pre-dates the hippie movement by about 10-15 years. Urban Dictionary
Jazz hippies in berets. Urban Dictionary
A 50's group of young men after the war looking for atction and excitement, created art and roamed around countries looking for truth, were taught by zen Buddhist, ate Bacon Egg and Cheese sandwhiches. they were, as Cassidy would say "It". Their poetry often resembles Rimbaud, Blake and Whitman. Urban Dictionary
A conformist to the Beats. They irritated Jack Kerouac (founder of the beats) to the point where he said he hated them. Urban Dictionary
A group of models dressed in black that possed for life magazine in the late 50's under the heading "Beatniks". It was the mainstreamization of the beat culture, and was the end of the genuine beat underground. Urban Dictionary
Someone who is beat by society, someone at the bottom of the bucket.Someone who has been down so long it looks like up.A part of the lost generation. A cool cat,a beatnik, man. Urban Dictionary
As the first person said, pre-date hippies by about 20 years, were interested in poetry, art, literature. Urban Dictionary
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