Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun beat_generation

1 sense of beat generation

Sense 1
beat generation, beats, beatniks -- (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))
       => 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)