love-in
English
Noun
- An activists' social gathering to promote love and feelings of well-being.
- 1977 June 6, New York Magazine, volume 10, number 23, page 76:
- 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.
- (by extension, colloquial) A situation characterized by (possibly insincere) friendship and affection.
- 2018, Carol Kuykendall, Krista Gilbert, Give Them Wings: Preparing for the Time Your Teen Leaves Home:
- The summer in between wasn't a total love-in of hugs and sweet family times, for us and other families.
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