beatnik
Example Sentences
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A beatnik radio host caught the Mets bug and praised baseball as a “kind of amalgam of all the human frustrations.”
A few people had gotten it right, in black turtlenecks and thrifted finds that cut a convincing impression of what people were wearing the night she decided that actually beatniks were the Worst.
From Literature
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He’s put off by Ginsberg’s aggressiveness, though the aging beatnik softens somewhat when he realizes Hujar isn’t an emissary of the enemy so much as a photographer picking up work where he can get it.
How could this crazy beatnik character be Disney?
From Los Angeles Times
He stars as the busboy at a beatnik bar who uses his incredibly lifelike sculptures to impress the hip clientele.
From New York Times
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