[ˈbiːtnɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation
(e.g: her long black hair and comfortable clothes are the badge of the artist and beatnik)


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Origin:
1950s: from beat + -nik on the pattern of sputnik, perhaps influenced by US use of Yiddish -nik, denoting someone or something who acts in a particular way