beat generation

Noun
  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) (synset 108386542)
    is a type 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
    member holonym: beat, beatnik - a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
    same as: beatniks, beats

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