Definition of "beatniks" [beatniks]

• Plural form of beatnik. (noun)

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• "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."