Noun
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: WordNetThe avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. Herbert Marcuse
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. David Lee Roth
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks. Peter Fonda
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves. Christopher Moore (author)
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. Janis Joplin
As a child in the 1940s–50s, he was a member of what has been described as "the transitional generation between the beatniks and hippies ". Source: Internet