Usually means: Rebellious, frustrated youth challenging norms.
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  1. angry young man: Merriam-Webster
  2. angry young man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. angry young man: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. angry young man: Collins English Dictionary
  5. angry young man: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Angry Young Man: Wiktionary
  7. angry young man: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Angry Young Man: Dictionary.com
  9. Angry young man (disambiguation), Angry young man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. angry young man: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Angry young man: Phrase Finder
  12. angry young man: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  13. angry young man: Merriam-Webster

Definitions from Wiktionary (Angry Young Man)

noun:  (literature) 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.

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