beat generation

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beat generation (plural beat generations)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Beat Generation
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 9, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
      They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.
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