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    BEAT GENERATION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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)play

    Synonyms:

    beat generation; beatniks; beats

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("beat generation" is a kind of...):

    youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)

    Meronyms (members of "beat generation"):

    beat; beatnik (a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior)

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