BEATS
Dictionary entry overview: What does beats mean? • BEATS (noun)
The noun BEATS has 1 sense:
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)
Familiarity information: BEATS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BEATS (noun)
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
beat generation; beatniks; beats
Hypernyms ("beats" is a kind of...):
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)
Meronyms (members of "beats"):
beat; beatnik (a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior)
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