Meanings
nounnude-in (plural nude-ins)
plural nude-ins
- A form of peaceful protest involving nudity originating in 1960s counterculture.
The fact that nudity was a cultural taboo meant that it could provide a vehicle for dissent. Sometimes the dissent was generalized, as in the case of public nude-ins. Nudity outraged the majority of citizens, and that was reason enough for it.
1991, Timothy Miller, The hippies and American values, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 61
Origin
From nude + -in, modelled after sit-in, etc.
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