beat generation

See also: Beat Generation

English

Noun

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.