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

TC Tiki Chris Member London Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1542	TC Tiki Chris Posted posted 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.