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beats

UK/biːts/ US/ˈbits/ common slang

noun

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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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Clipping of Beatrice or Beatrix + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

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