Be-in
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbiːɪn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Be-in is a noun meaning (dated) A gathering of hippies in a public place.
Meaning
(dated) A gathering of hippies in a public place.
Example Sentences
The five-day festival was a combination of a sexual be-in and a prostitution trade fair […].
"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."
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.
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.
Word Forms
- be-ins
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lie-in, bed-in, walk-in, drop-in, beehouse, sit-in.
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