Beatniks

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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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The word "beatniks" in example sentences

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen had nicknamed "beatniks" - ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Beat Generation is a term used to describe both a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called "beatniks"). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Others known for their creative resistances to 'mass think' include Mark Twain and later Lenny Bruce, the 'beatniks', hippies, and Viet Nam war resisters. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even the pictures of "beatniks," American bohemia, did not spoil the coziness of this place. ❋ Unknown (2003)

So when we got to the Bowery end of Bleecker Street, we found many guys with beards, but we didn't think these were the kind of beatniks we were looking for. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Sometimes in the evenings she dropped in to Pasea's coffeeshop, where Port Arthur's "beatniks" hung out. ❋ Friedman, Myra (1973)

They were the "beatniks" or "hippies" of antiquity: they had opted out not only from the rat race but from civilization itself. ❋ E. R. DODDS (1968)

Malvina first wrote "beatniks," then updated it to ❋ Malvina Reynolds (1964)

Popularly known as "beatniks," the museum tells the story of the poets and writers who left an indelible mark on the literary world.

They were called "beatniks" and can be credited with starting the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Trees would rather be power sawed than touched by "beatniks". ❋ Unknown (2008)

According to critic Ian Hamilton ‘To hear them chuckling over her cute spiritual despairs was a fine bonus for her old age, and she took particular pleasure in upstaging the beatniks at the avant-garde poetry rallies she for some reason kept getting invited to throughout the 1960s.’ ❋ Unknown (2010)

Somebody wrote in the New York Times that the Tea Partiers are the new beatniks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The founder of that group died in '55, so we're talking about a time that was pre-beatniks and pre-psychedelic' 60s. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2010)

Greg Wilson, DJ and producer: San Francisco I'm a bit of a 60s obsessive, so San Francisco holds special relevance, the city having spawned the hippie movement, not to mention the beatniks before them. ❋ Unknown (2011)

About this time of night you had the beatniks and other ‘hip’ people sitting around on their third cup of Joe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Beatniks] don't [clap], they [snap] ❋ $ally (2007)

"Oh, man! Ned [spilled ink] all over my poems. He's a real flat tire, I mean a cube, man. He's putting us on the train to [Squaresville]" - Ned Flanders' beatnik father "I'm really diggin' this jaaaazz, maaan! This cat is really hip! Far out [daddy-o]!" (clicks his fingers repeatedly) ❋ Burnin4tor (2007)

The dirty [beatnik] played [bongo] drums while reciting his own [poetry] at the poetry bar. ❋ California Bae Area (2016)

Alen [Ginsberg] and Jack Keruoac were [beatniks]. Man, they were some [cool cats]! ❋ Loco Weed (2003)

"Like. . . .wow [daddio]." [Beatnik] [speak]. ❋ Rawrleet (2006)

[Ginsberg], [Kerouac], Burroughs, Huncke and Cassidy headed for San fransico with a [napsack] and a thumb. ❋ Marcu$ (2004)

"I am not a beatnik, I am a [Roman] [Catholic]." - [Jack Kerouac] ❋ Anthony (2004)

[Jack Kerouac] was not a [beatnik] he was [a beat]. ❋ Madmadmad (2005)

hey [that cat] is [hip], he his [cool man] he is a beatnik can't go no further down. ❋ Leaf (2004)

On [the Road], by [Jack] Keourack, if thats how its [spelled]. ❋ Random (2004)

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