: a gathering of people especially for the expression of their mutual love

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Founded in 1966-67, Sly and the Family Stone was the first major group to include Black and white men and women, embodying a time when anything seemed possible -- riots and assassinations, communes and love-ins. Arkansas Online, 10 June 2025 The awards love-in belies the fact that there will likely be changes on show ahead of Season 51. Peter White, Deadline, 4 June 2025 It’s not been a total love-in between the leaders of these former Cold War foes. Keir Simmons, NBC news, 20 May 2025 The all-day-dining love-in continues at Holland Park's resurgent brasserie, Julie's. Charlie Teasdale, theweek, 16 Oct. 2024 Read the full rollicking report of SKR’s Locarno love-in here. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2024 Donovan’s hit album Mellow Yellow was all the rage in 1966, and the psychedelic patterns of the Spectre’s hood—er, bonnet—would be perfectly at home on a fluorescent Fillmore poster stapled to the wall at a Haight Ashbury love-in. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2024 The first and most obvious point is that both parties in the Microsoft-OpenAI love-in are increasingly hedging their bets. Phil Wahba, Fortune, 3 July 2024 The scene isn’t in vain: Janet reunites with Regina after attending a performance of the company’s latest metaphysical love-in with a wide-eyed Lacy in tow. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of love-in was in 1967

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“Love-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love-in. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.

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