Originally the term "beat" meant "weary", but it was later
connected to jazz music like the "hip" vocabulary and cool manners of the
Counter Culture artists´. "Beat" also appeared in Norman Mailer's essay
The White Negro (1957): 'The words are man, go, put down, make, beat,
cool, swing, with it, crazy, dig, creep, hip, square.' Several magazines
published articles on the Beats and lexicons of their jargon. Teenage
followers were called 'beatniks" -