beaker folk

plural noun

variants or less commonly beaker people

ˈbēkə(r)-

or beakermen

-mən,

-ˌmen

often capitalized B

: a prehistoric people living in Europe in the early Bronze Age whose culture was characterized by bell beakers buried with their dead in round barrows

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