Beats and Shimmies
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Beats
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).
Shimmies
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Shimmies and Beats. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/beats/shimmies
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Shimmies or Beats. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/beats/shimmies.
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