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  • noun Plural form of beat.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • 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)

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