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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).
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
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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