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love-ins

love-ins is the plural of love-in.

Meaning of love-in

Noun

love-in (plural love-ins)

  1. 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
  2. (broadly, colloquial) 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

Questions about love-ins

What is love-ins the plural of?
Love-ins is the plural of love-in.

Words near love-ins in the dictionary

  1. love-hatreds
  2. love-in
  3. love-in-a-mist
  4. love-in-idleness
  5. love-in-winter
  6. love-ins
  7. love-joust
  8. love-knot
  9. love-knots
  10. love-lies-bleeding
  11. love-light

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