单词 | kneel-in |
释义 | > as lemmaskneel-in 1. Forming nouns in combination with a verb stem, denoting a protest in which a number of people carry out the action expressed by the first element, e.g. camp-in, hate-in, kiss-in, kneel-in, pray-in, sew-in, stand-in, wade-in; occasionally with an adjective as the first element, e.g. fat-in, gay-in, nude-in. Also forming nouns designating a participant in the protest or gathering, e.g. kneeler-in, wader-in.Originally, in the early 1960s, such protests were carried out by African Americans against racial segregation in the United States.See also die-in n., fish-in n., live-in n. 2, love-in n. 1, paint-in n., read-in n.2 1, sick-in n., sleep-in n. 1, stall-in n., streak-in n. at streak v.2 Derivatives, swim-in n. ΚΠ 1960 Newsweek 16 May 34/1 Into the already-roiled waters of the South, Negroes will wade this summer in a campaign to break down segregation at public beaches—a wade-in counterpart to the widespread lunch-counter sit-ins of recent weeks. 1960 in Amer. Speech (1961) 36 282 Negro college students have initiated a new ‘kneel-in’ campaign..by attending services at white protestant Atlanta churches. 1961 in Amer. Speech 36 282 He called for walk-ins in art galleries and museums, drive-ins at segregated motels and roadside ice cream stands, sit-ins in court rooms, study-ins at segregated schools, and bury-ins to integrate cemeteries. 1961 in Amer. Speech 36 282 Negro teen-aged boys in an impromptu swim-in at an undesignated beach drew a crowd of 300 shoving, shouting Memorial Day bathers and boaters yesterday. 1963 Time 30 Aug. 12 The ‘pray-in’ at churches. 1967 Daily Tel. 3 Mar. 23/7 A ‘kiss-in’ to protest against Michigan University's stern regulations on ‘public displays of affection’ was described by students last night as the most enjoyable form of demonstration yet devised. 1967 Observer 11 June 10 If everyone was fat there'd be no war. No one would pass the physical.—A speaker at the New York Central Park ‘Fat-in’. 1967 Listener 10 Aug. 188/3 This is a very exciting inversion of psychedelic soulfulness, a hate-in. 1968 Lebende Sprachen 13 68/1 Their action fits into a wave of unofficial, unconnected nude-ins so far this year in Golden Gate Park, starting with freebeachers dancing nude at the great be-in. 1968 N.Y. Times 26 May 71/3 As illustrated by the extra squads of policemen patrolling the Capitol, there is a latent fear in Congress that the camp-in will set off violence. 1970 Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chron. 20 May 10 c/4 A march to Central Park for a ‘gay-in’. 1973 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. 13/8 College catering would be disrupted by students alternately boycotting canteens and then holding mass eat-ins. 1991 Chicago Tribune 30 Nov. i. 5/3 Gay rights activists staged a ‘marry-in’ at the County Building's Marriage Bureau. 2003 Oxf. Amer. Jan. 22/1 Aleck's Barbecue Heaven in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King Jr. and his lieutenants plotted marches and sit-ins, kneel-ins, and wade-ins. < as lemmas |
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