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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
beat·nik       [beet-nik] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.(sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
2.a person who rejects or avoids conventional behavior, dress, etc.
[Origin: 1955–60, Americanism; beat (adj.) (as in Beat Generation) + -nik]
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beat·nik       (bēt'nĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A person, especially a member or follower of the Beat Generation, whose behavior, views, and often style of dress are pointedly unconventional.


[Beat (Generation) + -nik.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
beatnik 
usually faintly pejorative, coined 1958 by San Francisco newspaper columnist Herb Caen during the heyday of -nik suffixes in the wake of Sputnik. From Beat generation (1952), associated with beat in its meanings "rhythm (especially in jazz)" as well as "worn out, exhausted," but originator Jack Kerouac (1922-69) in 1958 connected it with beatitude.
The origins of the word beat are obscure, but the meaning is only too clear to most Americans. More than the feeling of weariness, it implies the feeling of having been used, of being raw. It involves a sort of nakedness of the mind." ["New York Times Magazine," Oct. 2, 1952]

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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beatnik

noun
a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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