love-inn.
/ˈlʌvɪn/, U.S. /ˈləvˌɪn/ 1. A gathering at which people are encouraged to express feelings of friendship and physical attraction; such an event used as a form of social protest.Originally and chiefly associated with the hippie subculture of the 1960s.
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the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > gathering for purpose of love
love-in1967
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > others
aleOE
carola1300
dinnerc1425
love-feast1622
family party1735
aleingc1736
street meeting1820
sausage party1848
church social1862
funfest1904
mixer1916
love-in1967
potlatch1974
raft-up1977
crafternoon1978
geekfest1987
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of
morn-speechOE
court1154
morrow-speech1183
conventicle1382
congregation1389
plenary session1483
journeyc1500
night school1529
assession1560
general meeting1565
family meeting1638
panegyris1647
desk1691
collegea1703
annual general meeting1725
mass meeting1733
panegyre1757
plenum1772
family council1797
coterie1805
Round Table1830
GA1844
indignation meeting1848
protest meeting1852
hui1858
primary1859
Quaker meeting1861
mothers' meeting1865
sit-down1868
town hall1912
jamboree1919
protest rally1921
con1940
face-to-face1960
morning prayers1961
struggle meeting1966
be-in1967
love-in1967
plenary1969
catch-up1972
rencontre1975
schmoozefest1976
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > demonstration > types of demonstration or protest
counterprotest1595
student demonstration1856
lie-in1867
rent strike1881
hunger strike1889
march1908
protest march1914
occupation1920
lie-down1936
sit-down1936
sit-in1936
freedom march1947
vigil1956
freedom walk1957
swim-in1960
freedom ride1961
sitting in1961
sleep-out1961
fish-in1964
live-in1964
stall-in1964
sleep-in1965
Long March1967
love-in1967
talk-in1967
write-in1967
die-in1970
dirty protest1979
blanket protest1982
1967 Los Angeles Times 27 Mar. i. 26 Bergman denied that the ‘love-in’ was conceived and scheduled as an irritant to the Christian observance of Easter.
1967 Times 28 Mar. 4/7 The ‘love-in’ in Elysian Park, Los Angeles, was equally odd but caused no more than a traffic jam.
1971 M. Butterworth Flowers for Dead Witch ix. 127 We had a few love-ins up on the cliffs... We'd go for moonlight swims, and then dry off with a little horseplay.
1985 C. Nicholl in H. Marks Bk. Dope Stories (2001) v. 440 She despised the pot-heads and the acid-freaks..the love-ins and be-ins, all the stuff which made San Francisco a byword in the late sixties.
1995 Outside Sept. 68/2 What's called the T-party—a year-end gathering turned rowdy love-in.
2004 L. Sutherland Venus as Boy 35 One night, Mona, this sumo of a fourth year, decided she wanted a love-in.
2. A gathering which has the effect of strengthening the mutual esteem of a select group of participants.
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1967 Seattle Times 3 Dec. 28 When the Synod of Bishops opened in Rome at the end of September, one observer called it an ‘ecclesiastical love-in’.
1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 10 May 58 In contrast, the Bold Forbes camp was a kind of Latin love-in.
1993 Toronto Sun 17 June 8/1 ‘We are ready and waiting for the Tories,’ Chretien told a Grit love-in at the Inn on the Park.
2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 153 At the Frankfurt Book love-in I was fêted by people who until then had never so much as paused to scrape me off their shoes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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