Usually means: Protest by occupying space silently.
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  1. sit-in: Merriam-Webster
  2. sit-in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sit-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sit-in, sit-in: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sit-in: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sit-In, Sit-in, sit-in: Wordnik
  7. sit-in: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sit-in: Wiktionary
  9. sit-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sit-in: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sit-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sit-in: Dictionary.com
  13. sit-in: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sit-in: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sit-in: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. sit-in: Rhymezone
  17. sit-in: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sit-in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. sit-in: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sit-in: Encyclopedia

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noun:  A peaceful form of protest in which people occupy an area and refuse to leave.
adjective:  Designed to be sat in.

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