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beatnik

[beet-nik] / ˈbit nɪk /


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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.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Finally, there is Georgia McCann, a self-styled Gen Z beatnik and events planner whose special talents include throwing parties for Anna Delvey and not washing her hands after she pees.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025

That taste ran through the manic era the early ’60s were, a hinge moment between Cold War and Vietnam, Civil Rights and Black Power, repression and liberation; beatnik and hippie; Ab-Ex and Pop.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022

Crandall, a 19-year-old self-described beatnik in his gap year who recently moved from Santa Cruz, runs the day-to-day operations at the Desert Moon for his uncle, who owns the aging, 30-room motel.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2021

There was a kind of beatnik quality to the Durenmatt’s suit.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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