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What is a beatnik?

What is a beatnik? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and therewith is supposed to reject of conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior
  2. A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
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Guggenheim pulled the confirmed bachelor into her coven of beatnik friends.
It was an ineffective drama, with Taylor miscast as a beatnik artist and Richard Burton as the married clergyman with whom she falls in love.
Robin and Clive had been living a beatnik life in Edinburgh well before acid came along.
The guy who apparently dreamed of being a hippie was ahead of the beatnik current with his black jacket.
At an underground party, Joyce introduced Peggy to her friend Abe Drexler, a beatnik journalist.
The Boden catalogue has some loud party shirts or more modest floral needlecord and chambray versions for a beatnik 1960s look.

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