be-in

plural be-ins

1. datedA gathering of hippies in a public place.First known use 20th c.

   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

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   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

   "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

   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