love-in
love-in noun: an activists' social gathering to promote love and feelings of well-being.
Noun
love-in (plural love-ins)
- An activists' social gathering to promote love and feelings of well-being.
- Sara Davidson traces the varying paths she and two friends followed from their undergraduate years at Berkeley through sit-ins and love-ins; grass and acid; the Kennedys and the Beatles; the sexual revolution and the woman's movement.1977 June 6, New York Magazine, volume 10, number 23, page 76
- A situation characterized by (possibly insincere) friendship and affection.
- The summer in between wasn't a total love-in of hugs and sweet family times, for us and other families.2018, Carol Kuykendall, Krista Gilbert, Give Them Wings: Preparing for the Time Your Teen Leaves Home
Forms of love-in
| plural | love-ins |
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Origin of love-in
From love + -in, modelled after sit-in.
Questions about love-in
- What does love-in mean?
- Love-in means an activists' social gathering to promote love and feelings of well-being.
- What part of speech is love-in?
- Love-in is a noun.
- What is the plural of love-in?
- The plural of love-in is love-ins.
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