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Beat generation

Meaning

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Beat Generation

Name

A group of
American
who
in the
1950s and early 1960s. Their most important
are Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), and William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959).
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