beatnik

noun

beat·nik ˈbēt-nik

: a person who participated in a social movement of the 1950s and early 1960s which stressed artistic self-expression and the rejection of the mores of conventional society

broadly : a usually young and artistic person who rejects the mores of conventional society

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The landlord was a bearded beatnik, a vestige of another era, who’d bought several ramshackle structures for a song in the sixties and liked to curate an assortment of interesting tenants. —

Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024 Beneath the Spotify present and the punk-rock attitude, there’s the heart of a beatnik to Gasoline Rainbow. —

Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 May 2024 John Sinclair, the beatnik poet and Detroit counterculture icon, died Tuesday morning of heart failure at 82. —

Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2024 Novak's Gillian is a chic, Greenwich Village witch in the beatnik era who owns an unusual art gallery and an extremely unusual black cat. —

Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for beatnik