beat generation

Speech parts

1. beat generation - Noun

2. Beat generation - Proper noun

Meaning

a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

beats beatniks beatnik revolution beatnik literature beatnik scene beatnik lifestyle beatnik movement beatnik subculture beatnik artists beatnik rebellion beatnik spirit beat culture beat philosophy beatnik counterculture beatnik era
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Hypernyms

youth subculture

Examples

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. Harvey Pekar

Everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation. Jack Kerouac

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Among its denizens were Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso. Source: Internet

American Scream:Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and the Making of the Beat Generation. Source: Internet

"Howl" is not only a biography of Ginsberg's experiences before 1955, but also a history of the Beat Generation. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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