beatnik

beatnik
   This term had something of a vogue in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. It is said to have been invented by Herb Caen, a San Francisco newspaper columnist. The beat generation was alienated from normal society, advocating the use of drugs, sexually free behaviour, a peripatetic life, and so on. The ‘-nik’ ending undoubtedly came from the Russian satellite Sputnik I, which was launched on 4 October 1957. The suffix was at least temporarily active, bringing words like ‘peacenik’ and even ‘Bachnik’ into being, meaning ‘one who is a devotee of’. The 1960s beatniks were distinguishable by their appearance, and may have been addressed by the term as suggested in The Sophomore, by Barry Spacks. There a man on a beach says to a young passer-by: ‘Hey, Beatnik, watch what you’re doing.’

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  • beatnik — eat nik n. a member of the Beat Generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • beatnik — (ingl., de «beat generation» y el sufijo yiddish « nik»; pronunc. [bítnic]; pl. «beatniks») adj. y n. De un movimiento juvenil surgido en Estados Unidos en los años cincuenta, caracterizado por su actitud vitalista y el rechazo de los valores… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • beatnik — / bi:tnik/, it. / bitnik/ s. ingl. [der. di beat ], usato in ital. al masch. e al femm. 1. (soc.) [chi fa parte di un movimento giovanile nato negli Stati Uniti d America, caratterizzato da atteggiamenti ribelli e anticonformisti] ▶◀ beat. 2.… …   Enciclopedia Italiana

  • beatnik — coined 1958 by San Francisco newspaper columnist Herb Caen during the heyday of nik suffixes in the wake of SPUTNIK (Cf. Sputnik). From Beat generation (1952), associated with beat (n.) in its meaning rhythm (especially in jazz) as well as beat… …   Etymology dictionary

  • beatnik — /ˈbitnik, ingl. ˈbiːtnɪk/ s. m. e f. inv.; anche agg. capellone, hippy …   Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione

  • beatnik — [n] uncoventional, free sprited person beat, Bohemian, demonstrator, dropout, flower child*, hippie, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, peacenik*, protester, radical; concept 423 …   New thesaurus

  • beatnik — {{/stl 13}}{{stl 7}}[wym. bitnik]{{/stl 7}}{{stl 17}}ZOB. {{/stl 17}}{{stl 7}}bitnik {{/stl 7}} …   Langenscheidt Polski wyjaśnień

  • beatnik — ► NOUN ▪ a young member of a subculture associated with the beat generation …   English terms dictionary

  • beatnik — ☆ beatnik [bēt′nik ] n. [ BEAT, adj. 2 + NIK] a member of the beat group …   English World dictionary

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