sit-in

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noun
  1. any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises: Sixty students staged a sit-in outside the dean's office.

  2. an organized passive protest, especially against racial segregation, in which the demonstrators occupy seats prohibited to them, as in restaurants and other public places.

Origin of sit-in

1
1955–60; noun use of verb phrase sit in (a place); cf. sit1, -in3

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How to use sit-in in a sentence

  • This day sit-in-the-kitchen has uncovered his face before his father!'

  • I 'm tired of having you a sit-in-the-corner, watch-the-other-fellow-dance, male-wallflower proposition!

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British Dictionary definitions for sit-in

sit-in

noun
  1. a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats in a public place and refuse to move as a protest

  2. another term for sit-down strike

verbsit in (intr, adverb)
  1. (often foll by for) to deputize (for)

  2. (foll by on) to take part (in) as a visitor or guest: we sat in on Professor Johnson's seminar

  1. to organize or take part in a sit-in

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Other Idioms and Phrases with sit-in

sit-in

Attend or take part as a visitor, as in My son's jazz group asked me to sit in tonight. It is often put as sit in on, as in They asked me to sit in on their poker game. [Mid-1800s]

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