1. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favoured modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
   - beat generation, beats

1. A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behaviour
   - beat

Type of: nonconformist, recusant, youth subculture

Encyclopedia: Beatnik

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