Definition: Meaning of, beat generation in English to English dictionary.
Pronunciation:/ biːt dʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)n /
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e.g., bebop a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favoured modern forms of jazz
the group of young people in the 1950s, including the writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, who refused to accept the values of Western society, and showed this by refusing to work, keeping no material possessions, and wearing their own style of clothes