单词 | sitting in |
释义 | sitting inn. 1. Chiefly U.S. Jazz. The action or an instance of a musician playing in a session with a band or orchestra of which he or she is not a regular member. ΚΠ 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets x. 237 The band instrumentation was kept normal, and men alternated with one another in the process known as sitting in. 1963 Hi Fi Stereo Rev. Feb. 48/1 The exchange of musical ideas between races was long confined to private meetings, occasional sittings-in of white musicians with Negro bands and vice versa. 2000 P. Stump Go ahead John i. 16 Every night, jams and sittings-in would create music whose jazz and r'n'b roots became ever more densely intertwined. 2. The action or an act of staging a sit-in strike or demonstration; = sit-in n. 1. ΘΚΠ 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 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > demonstration > types of demonstration or protest > action of hunger-striking1916 sitting in1961 1961 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 14 July 14/2 So long as the dual sponsors of freedom riding..and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference confined themselves to peaceful picketing and sitting in they had wide interracial sympathy and support. 1977 ‘C. Aird’ Parting Breath iv. 54 The students..squatted on the floor... ‘Sitting-in means sitting down, I reckon,’ remarked one student. 2011 S. W. Hereford & J. D. Ellis Beside Troubled Waters iv. 96 Probably 80 percent of the people doing the sitting-in were Councill [School] students of A&M students. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1946 |
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