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Beat, Beat, Beat (1959) by William F. Brown. Beatniks were members of a social movement in the mid-20th century, who subscribed to an anti-materialistic lifestyle. They rejected the conformity and consumerism of mainstream American culture and expressed themselves through various forms of art, such as literature, poetry, music, and painting.
The term "beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958, blending the name of the recent Russian satellite Sputnik and Beat Generation. This suggested that beatniks were (1) "far out of the mainstream of society" and (2) "possibly pro-Communist."
The term was borrowed in Romanian slang with the meaning of "person" or "lover" Gaco In Turkish Gaco means "the Gypsy"; the Turkish Cypriots use this term for the mainland Turkish people. Gaijin (Japan) anybody not ethnic Japanese, though most widely used to describe whites and non-Asians. Sometimes intended to be derogatory.
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Beat "Beat" is when the makeup on someone makes them look truly spectacular; it can also mean the process by which one "beats" their face, or applies their makeup. So take pride whenever someone ...
By Beat Generation standards, these newcomers were not cool enough to be considered hip, so they used the term hippie with disdain. Ronald Reagan , who was governor of California during the height of the hippie movement, described a hippie as a person who "dresses like Tarzan , has hair like Jane , and smells like Cheeta ."
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
Other suppositions include that "cracking" or "cracking corn" referred to the now-obsolete English and Appalachian slang meaning "to gossip" or "to sit around chitchatting"; [45] that the singer is resting from his oversight duties and allowing Jim to steal corn or corn liquor; that "Jim Crack" is simply a synonym for "Jim Crow" by means of the ...