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plural beatniks
A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior. examples
A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style. quotations examples
In tight black jeans and black polo-neck sweater he reminded her of an old-fashioned beatnik.
2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 185