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1. (n.) Beat Generation
(often l.c.) members of the generation that came of age in the 1950s and espoused forms of mysticism and the relaxation of social inhibitions.
Etymology: (1950–55; appar. beat , adj.)
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1. (noun) beat generation, beats, beatniks
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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