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beatnik
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[ˈbiːtnɪk], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation
(e.g: her long black hair and comfortable clothes are the badge of the artist and beatnik)
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Origin
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1950s: from beat + -nik on the pattern of sputnik, perhaps influenced by US use of Yiddish -nik, denoting someone or something who acts in a particular way
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