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beatnik

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Sociology
beat·nik /ˈbiːtnɪk/ noun [countable]  SSone of a group of young people in the late 1950s and early 1960s, who did not accept the values of society and showed this by their clothes and the way they lived 垮掉的一代一员,披头族成员〔20世纪50年代末和60年代初的一些年轻人,他们不接受当时的社会价值观,并通过穿着和生活方式表现出来〕
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beatnikTied around his neck was a solid black scarf that hinted at a beatnik spirit lurking beneath the formality.He was a beatnik who was born too late.Her long black hair and comfortable clothes are the unruffled badge of the artist and beatnik, be she fifteen or fifty.He had attitude, the right stuff, like a nineteenth-century beatnik.I went to Oxford in 1961 with my beatnik uniform, sandals and black sweater.The Pre-Raphaelite beatnik, in other words.Then you got the beatnik, maybe a lower class of person.
beat·nik nounChineseSyllable
a people young of of Corpus one group


beatnik
beatnik /ˈbiːtnɪk/ noun [countable]
one of a group of young people in the late 1950s and early 1960s, who did not accept the values of society and showed this by their clothes and the way they lived


beat·nikBrE /ˈbiːtnɪk/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbiːtnɪk/ 🔊 nouna young person in the 1950s and early 1960s who rejected the way of life of ordinary society and showed this by behaving and dressing in a different way from most people “垮掉的一代” 的一员(20 世纪 50 年代及 60 年代初摈弃传统生活与衣着的年轻人)