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beat adjective- world-weary, spiritual, jaded, intellectual US, 1947
- But he’s still alive, and strange, and wise, and beat, and human, and all blood-and-flesh and starving as in benny depression forever. — Jack Kerouac, Windblown World, pp. 100–101, 3 July 1948
- You know, everyone I know is kind of furtive, kind of beat. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 38, 1952
- The beatest characters in the country swarmed on the sidewalk[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 85, 1957
- If while living in the Honor Unit you get into a “beef” which results in action against you by the disciplinary committee, one of the certain penalties is that you are immediately kickied out of No. 5 Building. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 52, 1968
- If all the unemployed had followed the lead of the beatniks, Moloch would gladly have legalized the use of euphoric drugs and marijuana, passed out free jazz albums and sleeping bags, to all those willing to sign affidavits promising to remain “beat.” — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 72, 1968
- utterly tired UK, 1821
- Mother heard you were feeling pretty beat. — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 42, 1955
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