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Beat Generation
–noun
members of the generation that came of age after World War II who, supposedly as a result of disillusionment stemming from the Cold War, espoused forms of mysticism and the relaxation of social and sexual inhibitions.
Also, beat generation.

[Origin: 1950–55; appar. beat, though the sense intended by earliest users of the phrase is not clear; the association with beatitude later made by Jack Kerouac is prob. fanciful]
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Beat Generation  
n.   A group of American writers and artists popular in the 1950s and early 1960s, influenced by Eastern philosophy and religion and known especially for their use of nontraditional forms and their rejection of conventional social values.


[From beat, weary; see beat or short for beatitude.]

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beat generation

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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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