beat generation

1. 1.

   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)

   Synonymsbeatsbeatniks

   Broaderyouth subculture

Questions about beat generation

What does beat generation mean?

beat generation means "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)".

What is another word for beat generation?

Close synonyms include beats, beatniks. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.