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house party

or houseparty

noun

the entertainment of guests for one or more nights at one's home, a fraternity or sorority house, etc.
the guests at such an affair or party:
The house party goes sailing today.

house party

a party, usually in a country house, at which guests are invited to stay for several days
the guests who are invited

First recorded in 1875–80

He talks about the time he lost his virginity to a woman—a fan of Doogie Howser—at a house party in New Mexico.

Two officers, their badge numbers covered by black tape, watch as guests disperse from a house party they have recently disrupted.

He was at a house party when a good-looking woman came out of the bathroom and told him about the cocaine she was doing.

One day, when preparing to cook for a house party, she was on her knees, cleaning the floor.

To cutting my hair off, to going to a house party, to just being completely free ... to make out with myself.

There were assembled the house-party only, Devar and I being the guests of the evening.

"I hope you don't intend to tell the house party that," remarked Sylvia.

There was a house-party, and one evening neither Porteous nor my mother came down to dinner.

It rained steadily for three days; then the sunshine gleamed and Steve's house-party broke up.

Knight had come home late, just in time to dress, and she had not thought to speak of the house party.

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