love-in

Related to love-in: making love, Love poems

love-in

1. A gathering focused on personal pleasure involving music, drugs, and sexual acts. Margaret reminisced about when she used to attend love-ins in the '60s.
2. A situation involving lavish mutual praise and admiration. The office party became a love-in as the managers all congratulated each other on their various accomplishments.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

love-in

1. n. an event during the 1960s where one or more couples made love in a public place. My uncle was at one of those love-ins, and he said if anything was going on, it was going on under blankets.
2. n. an event in the 1960s where everyone became euphoric—with the help of marijuana—about love and respect for their fellow humans. Everyone at the annual company love-in was throwing love bombs around at each other.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • just for love
  • for love
  • for love/for the love of something
  • at (one's) pleasure
  • at your/somebody's pleasure
  • have had the pleasure
  • lady of pleasure
  • (one's) jollies
  • jollies
  • labor of love, a
References in periodicals archive
Flower festivals, love-ins, seemingly endless days of transendental meditation made it look - especially to a post-war generation of parents - that their children were quietly slipping into the abyss of sloth.
West London football clubs could be the first to collapse under the weight of celebrity love-ins and that statue of Michael Jackson at Craven Cottage has set a dangerous precedent.
Their hook-filled, squeaky-clean folk rock harkens back to the days of love-ins and mescaline, to a time when pop music didn't suck.
What regulatory events and consultations are they planning at my expense that are related to the questions asked - love-ins or prayer meetings?" Comments received from other members during the course of my presidential duties are in much the same vein.
By 1967-68 nihilistic rioting was transformed into be-ins, sit-ins, and love-ins in the quest for new forms of identity which challenged that ancient British convention-the Puritan work ethic.
It is the latest of a number of regional love-ins designed, one suspects, to reach out to the country, and present a more human face.
100,000 young people gather in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco to help themselves to free food and "free Love." The hippie movement--and "love-ins"--spread to New York, Los Angeles, and other big cities.
Have moved on from Posh and Becks to John and Yoko with their tedious bed love-ins.
It's been 40 years since the Summer of Love introduced the world to Flower Power, love-ins and the Haight-Ashbury District and made San Francisco the capital of the hippie counterculture movement.
They sliver, drip honey cloaked in free verse At journalistic love-ins, awaiting the Fall.
Although quite enjoyable, the books are a product of their time, and the reader is transported to the early 1970's with references to hippies, love-ins, the fuzz (the police), phonograph records, bellbottom dungarees, young people whose motto was "never trust anybody over thirty," and electric typewriters.
Hunter shares intimate details with the reader--how they smelled and how they felt, wheelhouse diatribes, poetic musings on the broken wildness of the coast and accounts of their brief counter-culture incursions or love-ins at coastal communities.
There were the "-ins" of the 1960s: sit-ins, love-ins, wade-ins (swimming at segregated beaches), and wed-ins (hippie marriages).
AI groupies Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels tried to soften the blow by having her over for dinner, but let's face it-all of the lesbian love-ins in the world won't get our Idol Most Likely to Perform in a Bathhouse back into the competition.
But, far from being described as love-ins, the more common description of a Roots Manuva gig is one of chaos.