be-in en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈbiːɪn/ (UK)
Etymology
From be + -in.
Meanings
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(dated) A gathering of hippies in a public place.
In the thirties poetry might have been seen as a revolutionary weapon; today the creative aspect of be-ins is permeated with a quality of appeasement, something the Fun Palace planners may not have anticipated.
1967, Studio International, volume 174, page 81:For the Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, cyberlibertarian and a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, freewheeling file-sharing and community-building seemed like an anticorporate be-in.
2009 August 2, Virginia Heffernan, “Hop on, Pop”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2021:"We have Phish, now that the Dead are gone," she ventures. "And raves. It's very much the same idea as a be-in or love-in to go to a rave."
1997 September 1, James S Kunen, “It ain't us, babe”, in Time:The five-day festival was a combination of a sexual be-in and a prostitution trade fair […].
2012, Eric Berkowitz, Sex and Punishment, Westbourne Press 2013, page 115:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| be-ins | Number=Plur | lexicographic |