beatniks

[ UK /bˈiːtnɪks/ ]
[ US /ˈbitnɪks/ ]
NOUN
  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; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
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How To Use beatniks In A Sentence

  • They always do things ‘different’ out there - surfers, hippies, beatniks, and Hollywood are always the things people ask about, and they're believed to be the role models for how Californians think.
  • But as these long-haired beatniks graduated from Düsseldorf Conservatory, they became frustrated with both classical formalism and avant-garde jazz.
  • The first wave of post-war rebels, beatniks were arty, defiant and left-field.
  • The original mods were more interested in watching French art movies than decking rockers, and they shared a sensibility, if not a dress sense, with the beatniks who hung around the same Soho coffee shops.
  • From these places emerged the "beatniks", typically dressed in shabby clothes, sporting a beard and wearing sunglasses at all hours.
  • It has become rather hilarious to read about the smelly Beatniks who would not bathe, who stayed up all night at cafes reading poetry and listening to jazz, smoking reefer and bed hopping.
  • He introduced beatniks, hippies, and druggies as suitable cases for cinematic treatment, and consciously challenged Hollywood's reigning myth of a classless society.
  • Corman introduced beatniks, hippies, and druggies as suitable cases for cinematic treatment, and consciously challenged Hollywood's reigning myth of a classless society.
  • In an article entitled "A New Haven for Beatniks," San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon wrote about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse, using the term hippie to refer to the new generation of beatniks who had moved from North Beach into the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Archive 2007-10-01
  • My first experiences using a camera were in 1962 when I fooled around with a Brownie on subjects like my friends dressed up as beatniks and, later, the World's Fair in New York.
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