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The Meaning of beats

  • (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)

Synonyms

beat generation , beatniks , beat , round , pulse , pulsation , heartbeat , beat , rhythm , beat , musical rhythm , beat , beatnik , beat , beat , meter , metre , measure , beat , cadence , beat , beat , beat , beat , beat out , crush , shell , trounce , vanquish , beat , beat up , work over , beat , beat , pound , thump , beat , drum , beat , thrum , beat , beat , flap , beat , beat , scramble , beat , beat , beat , bunk , tick , ticktock , ticktack , beat , beat , flap , beat , pulsate , beat , quiver , beat , beat , beat , outwit , overreach , outsmart , outfox , beat , circumvent , perplex , vex , stick , get , puzzle , mystify , baffle , beat , pose , bewilder , flummox , stupefy , nonplus , gravel , amaze , dumbfound , exhaust , wash up , beat , tucker , tucker out

Homophones

baetz , beets , beitz , bietz

Rhymes

baetz , beets , beitz , bietz , bleats , cheats , cleats , competes , completes , deats , deceits , defeats , deitz , depletes , dietz , eats , elites , feats , fleets , gaetz , graetz , heartbeats , heats , keats , keatts , keitz , kreitz , leitz , lietz , meats , mistreats , neitz , paetz , peets , peetz , peitz , raetz , reetz , repeats , retreats , rietz , scheets , scheetz , seats , sheats , skeets , steitz , streets , suites , sweets , teats , treats , viets , weitz , yeatts , zeitz , zietz