cool 50's youth culture. Wore berets and polo necks. Hung out in coffee shops playing bongos and reciting poetry and experimenting with marijuana.Pre-dates the hippie movement by about 10-15 years.
by loco weed April 24, 2003
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Y beatniks can often be spotted outside mac stores purchasing apple products. They are attired in tight skinny jeans, tight shirts, plastic bracelets that bare an inspirational message on them (make poverty history) and will have an ipod in their ears.
They like to post blogs on "the interwebs" as they dub it and discuss topics ranging from global warming, politics, conspiracy theories, art and music.
They consider that 9/11 was a conspiracy theory, they generally hate George bush, believe that they have a unique taste in music and consider them selves as environmentally friendly.
Y beatniks can often be spotted outside mac stores purchasing apple products. They are attired in tight skinny jeans, tight shirts, plastic bracelets that bare an inspirational message on them (make poverty history) and will have an ipod in their ears.
They like to post blogs on "the interwebs" as they dub it and discuss topics ranging from global warming, politics, conspiracy theories, art and music.
They consider that 9/11 was a conspiracy theory, they generally hate George bush, believe that they have a unique taste in music and consider them selves as environmentally friendly.
Jim: Hey did you see that guy standing outside that apple shop?
Henry: umm which guy there were lots
Jim: He was the guy wearing the skinny jeans and tight shirt. He's also wearing that stupid arm band from one of u2's charity shows.
Henry: oh yeah I know him, he thinks he's really creative and a non conformist...bah nothing more then a y beatnik.
Henry: umm which guy there were lots
Jim: He was the guy wearing the skinny jeans and tight shirt. He's also wearing that stupid arm band from one of u2's charity shows.
Henry: oh yeah I know him, he thinks he's really creative and a non conformist...bah nothing more then a y beatnik.
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vintage life-stylists who like the jazz poetry coffee shoppe scene and anything pertaining to the beatnik era
by $ally August 4, 2007
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Get the beatnik mug.a 50's group of young men after the war looking for atction and excitement, created art and roamed around countries looking for truth, were taught by zen Buddhist, ate Bacon Egg and Cheese sandwhiches. they were, as Cassidy would say "It". Their poetry often resembles Rimbaud, Blake and Whitman.
Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, Huncke and Cassidy headed for San fransico with a napsack and a thumb.
by marcu$ July 26, 2004
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by Anthony April 11, 2004
Get the beatnik mug.A Thrifty Beatnik is a term used to describe someone who describes a person who strives to remain educated, affluent and fashionable on a minimal budget regardless of class, age or background. Examples include Milo Minderbinder in "Catch 22" and, to a lesser extent, Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld in "The Bottle Deposit". It is also a term to describe those who reject consumerism and shop second hand for books, clothing and art rather than justifying newly made products by carbon offsetting.
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The writer Jack London is the epitomy of the term. From a working class family in San Francisco he worked 12 to 18 hours in menial and unskilled labour whilst never losing his enterprising spirit or intellectual enthusiasm for reading and writing.
The webcomic Cat & Girl shows evidence of a pair of Thrifty Beatniks
The writer Jack London is the epitomy of the term. From a working class family in San Francisco he worked 12 to 18 hours in menial and unskilled labour whilst never losing his enterprising spirit or intellectual enthusiasm for reading and writing.
The webcomic Cat & Girl shows evidence of a pair of Thrifty Beatniks
by rangelife5 August 29, 2009
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