Definition of Beats

1. Noun. 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).

Exact synonyms: Beat Generation, Beatniks
Generic synonyms: Youth Subculture
Member holonyms: Beat, Beatnik

Definition of Beats

1. Noun. (plural of beat) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of beat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beats

1. beat [v] - See also: beat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beats

beating down
beating off
beating up
beatings
beatitude
beatitudes
beatless
beatmaker
beatmakers
beatmatching
beatnik
beatnikery
beatnikism
beatniks
beato
beats (current term)
beats a dead horse
beats around the bush
beats down
beats me
beats off
beats per minute
beats up
beatscape
beatscapes
beau
beau geste
beau ideal
beau idéal
beau monde

Literary usage of Beats

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1903)
"When the beats are somewhat slow, the phase of silence is distinctly ... The question whether the beats are still audible when one sound is led to ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Anything that beats the thing spoken of. 1847 You don't tell me so ! ... 1826 The first remark in the pamphlet was, " It beats the devil. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1880)
"But the nominal value, depending on the accelerated beats was, of coarse, increased, and the experiment of the forks shows that it was increased exactly in ..."

4. The Tribune Almanac and Political Registerby Horace Greeley by Horace Greeley (1884)
"Verena, Chiquita, Alice and Papoose : Cape Co3 catboat Harbinger beats Kathleen and Sarac-en. ... Nora beats Fortuna; III. Schooners, Grayling beats Sea Fox ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"3.50 6 beats. 3.66 6 beats. 4.01 7 beats. 4.04 7 beats. ... 4.13 21 beats, response feeble, right foot. 4.18 13 beat* for left foot 4.17 40 beats (right ..."

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