love-in

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[love-in] {n.}, {slang}, {informal} A festival or occasion to celebrate life, human sensuality, the beauty of nature, human sexuality, and universal love; affairs so conceived by some frequently deteriorate into obscenity and drug using sessions in parody of their stated purpose.

* /The hippies gathered for a big love-in in the Halght-Ashbury district of San Francisco./

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	human ¹⁰ love ⁸¹ {informal} ¹⁴⁰¹ {n.} ⁹¹² {slang} ⁵⁹³

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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