1. A chant to the Hindu god Krishna.
2. Informal.
   1. A member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), founded in the United States in 1966.
   2. The society itself.

[From the chant Hare Krishna : Sanskrit Hare, vocative of Hariḥ, a name of Vishnu (from hari-, yellow-green, tawny yellow) + Sanskrit Kṛṣṇa, vocative of Kṛṣṇaḥ, Krishna; see Krishna¹.]

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