Post #60105 by Tiki Chris on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 10:48 AM

On 2003-11-15 09:02, jungletrader wrote:
Where did the word "beatnik" come from?

"beat" as in beatitude/beatific,
"nik" as in (the yiddish? hebrew?) suffix meaning something sort of like "one who has the qualities of" or "one who does".

i think mr. Kerouac is credited w/ coining the expression.