英和和英

名詞

love-in (plural love-ins)

1. 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.

2. (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.

関連する語

• be-in
• laugh-in
• sit-in

アナグラム

• in love, live on