PLUR
- noun
- Jargon
- At the festival, everyone embraced the spirit of PLUR by promoting peace, love, unity, and respect.
Examples
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Many participants believe that PLUR is essential for creating a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere at electronic dance music events.
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More specifically, the scene had declined because these new attendees did not know about or did not embrace its central philosophy of PLUR.
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As long as you're about the scene and you're about keeping the scene alive and keeping PLUR, you know.
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Being in tune with the universe, I have sacrificed my mind, body, and soul for the scene, having dreams to restore PLUR throughout the summer whenever I am surrounded by music.
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This diversity in people of different ethnicities reflected, according to some of our respondents, the ethic of PLUR (peace, love, unity, and respect) that had attracted many of them to the scene.
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Their critique of other Asian Americans was not only that they were uncool, but that they were partly responsible for bringing about the overall decline in the scene, undermining its original PLUR philosophy, and encouraging its contemporary commercialization.
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Ravers promote the PLUR dogma (peace, love, unity, and respect), and some describe the events as a "spiritual experience" (Weber, 1999, p. 326), which are allegedly asexual (Sloan, 2000).
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The rave culture thrives on the values of PLUR, encouraging attendees to connect with one another through shared experiences.
Surface Forms
Morphology
PLUR = P + L + U + R
As an acronym, the noun's meaning is not derivable from the letters themselves unless the learner already knows the expansion 'peace, love, unity, respect'.
Etymology
The word PLUR comes from the rave scene and is made from the first letters of peace, love, unity, and respect. It names the friendly set of values people follow at festivals and parties.