Sit-down

Origin

From sit down.

Full definition of sit-down

Adjective

1. Intended to be done while sitting.

Noun

1. An act of sitting down, especially with other people in some form of social exchange.
2. A sit-in, a protest of civil disobedience by people sitting and refusing to move.
• 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 108:I helped organize a sit-down outside an Oxford hairdressers' shop that refused black female customers.