Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

be-in

/ˈbiːɪn/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.67 in modern English

Syllables: be-in
IPA: /ˈbiːɪn/

6

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A gathering of hippies in a public place.

Dated

Example Sentences

"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."
""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."
"The five-day festival was a combination of a sexual be-in and a prostitution trade fair […]."

Etymology

From be + -in.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈbiːɪn/

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

be-ins (plural)

Phrases

love-in read-in sit-in

Frequently Paired Words

love-in read-in sit-in

Questions

How do you pronounce be-in?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbiːɪn/.
What does be-in mean?: A gathering of hippies in a public place.
Where does be-in come from?: From be + -in.

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