Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gathering to engender and promote love, as for the satisfaction of the participants or as a form of social activism.
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- noun a
social gathering topromote love andfeelings ofwell-being
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Examples
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Keith says that he never puts the moves on the ladies first, that he is passive and that they always have come onto him but he and Amazon made it very easy for me by setting a very, very reasonable low fee for the three day love-in.
Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: I Spent New Year's Eve in Bed With Keith Richards Patricia Zohn 2011
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Keith says that he never puts the moves on the ladies first, that he is passive and that they always have come onto him but he and Amazon made it very easy for me by setting a very, very reasonable low fee for the three day love-in.
Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: I Spent New Year's Eve in Bed With Keith Richards Patricia Zohn 2011
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Unless something catastrophic happens, expect the DUP-Sinn Féin love-in to continue at Stormont with the other parties in the coalition, namely the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists, complaining about being cut out of the carve up of ministries, power and influence.
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Keith says that he never puts the moves on the ladies first, that he is passive and that they always have come onto him but he and Amazon made it very easy for me by setting a very, very reasonable low fee for the three day love-in.
Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: I Spent New Year's Eve in Bed With Keith Richards Patricia Zohn 2011
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In a grand former church packed out with believers and activists, it felt like an inaugural love-in.
The trouble with the economics of happiness | Aditya Chakrabortty 2011
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It's impossible to decide which was the biggest love-in of the day on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's second Friday: 99-year-old Lionel Ferbos singing "When You're Smiling" or John Boutte who wrote HBO's Treme theme song, and Irma Thomas who wrote "Wish Someone Would Care"singing tributes to Mahalia Jackson's 100 birthday.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: PHOTOS: New Orleans Jazz Fest Honors 100 Years of Soulitude Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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It's impossible to decide which was the biggest love-in of the day on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's second Friday: 99-year-old Lionel Ferbos singing "When You're Smiling" or John Boutte who wrote HBO's Treme theme song, and Irma Thomas who wrote "Wish Someone Would Care"singing tributes to Mahalia Jackson's 100 birthday.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: PHOTOS: New Orleans Jazz Fest Honors 100 Years of Soulitude Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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It's impossible to decide which was the biggest love-in of the day on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's second Friday: 99-year-old Lionel Ferbos singing "When You're Smiling" or John Boutte who wrote HBO's Treme theme song, and Irma Thomas who wrote "Wish Someone Would Care"singing tributes to Mahalia Jackson's 100 birthday.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: PHOTOS: New Orleans Jazz Fest Honors 100 Years of Soulitude Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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It's impossible to decide which was the biggest love-in of the day on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's second Friday: 99-year-old Lionel Ferbos singing "When You're Smiling" or John Boutte who wrote HBO's Treme theme song, and Irma Thomas who wrote "Wish Someone Would Care"singing tributes to Mahalia Jackson's 100 birthday.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: PHOTOS: New Orleans Jazz Fest Honors 100 Years of Soulitude Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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• Royal wedding news now, and wasn't it kind of Alton Towers to give the Duchess of Fergie the chance to compere its wedding coverage on April 29, especially as pointedly, and poignantly, she hasn't been invited to the much awaited love-in?
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
treeseed commented on the word love-in
a gathering of people especially for the expression of their mutual love
Love-ins of the late 1960s that I have attended, featured music, art, dancing, meditation, and all manner of groovy happenings and people...oh, yeah, and drugs.
January 25, 2008