A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior.
1 Leonard's descriptions of the North Beach beatnik milieu parallel today's cyberpunk culture.
2 Jorgeson would like to move to New York and become a beatnik .
3 John Goodman spouts furiously while being driven northwards by a crazed beatnik .
4 The archetypal word-drunk beatnik is, of course, a fictional character from a novel.
5 He decided to drop the beatnik pose and revert to his Southern accent.
6 I see this time, your title's all lowercase, like some beatnik wrote it.
7 Kook is not, as everybody associated with Breakfast at Tiffany's knows, a beatnik term.
8 You want to go to commencement in your beatnik suit?
9 I lived on the ocean and I was a beatnik .
10 Hemming's beatnik predilections baffled most of his American contemporaries.
11 Smith is part aging beatnik and part college sophomore.
12 Big, burly, mellow-voiced and casually dressed, Arnold Newman at 61 looks like an aging beatnik .
13 Has the world turned its back on beatnik literature?
14 A beatnik stood up to recite some poetry, and we all threw things at him.
15 Many may have felt that Barnes was using "cooking" in the hip, beatnik sense.
16 But Cooper Clarke's beatnik swagger and quick-witted Mancunian charm eventually landed him the gig he craved.
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