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Coined in reference to John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Angry Young Man
Today it means: Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works being characterized by harshness, realism, and disillusionment with traditional norms. Full definition →