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block party

noun

  1. an outdoor festival, usually held in a closed-off city street, often to raise money for a local organization or for a block association.


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We would throw block parties, house parties and at the end of the summer we would have one big bash to celebrate the last weekend before the new school year.

From Time

Hummus for $18 sounds ridiculous until you spy a bowl of lemony mashed rice peas — an heirloom field pea — and enough chilled vegetables to throw a block party.

They flock to them at carnivals, festivals, and block parties.

At the start of the summer season of 2021, almost everybody is ready for a block party of a movie like In the Heights.

From Time

He cited a block party that the city had held to generate possible ideas and offered the example of a food truck app based on where parking is available.

I was at Bushwick Block Party where you first unveiled the truck.

Occasionally during a block party, Castro would join a few of the residents for a few hours and knock back a couple of beers.

The ex-governor of Illinois entertained crowds at a recent Chicago block party by singing the Elvis tune “Treat Me Nice.”

At a Chicago block party in August 2009, Blago did his best Elvis impression.

Dave Chapelle pulled off the impossible and wrangled the Fugees back together for his 2004 Block Party documentary.

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