Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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);
[syn: beat generation, beats, beatniks]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
beat generation
n 1: 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) [syn: beat
generation, beats, beatniks]