a young person in the late 1950s and early 1960s who did not accept the usual ideas and rules of society and who dressed and behaved in a different way from other people in order to emphasize this.
Synonyms and related words
People who live in a particular way
a rolling stone
beatnik
bohemian
beatnik
noun countable
US /ˈbitnɪk/
Word Forms
singular
beatnik
plural
beatniks
DEFINITIONS1
1
a young person in the late 1950s and early 1960s who did not accept the usual ideas and rules of society and who dressed and behaved in a different way from other people in order to emphasize this.