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Use "beatniks" in a sentence
"San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen had nicknamed "beatniks" -"
"The Beat Generation is a term used to describe both a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called "beatniks")."
"Others known for their creative resistances to 'mass think' include Mark Twain and later Lenny Bruce, the 'beatniks', hippies, and Viet Nam war resisters."