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cocktail party

noun

  1. a social gathering, often held during the cocktail hour, at which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages, hors d'oeuvres, and canapés are served.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cocktail party1

First recorded in 1925–30

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Example Sentences

She said that her co-star, Alfre Woodard, talked to her about it a cocktail party that night.

Linklater recalled meeting Arquette at a cocktail party shortly after the release of True Romance.

I blame a sleepless night or free drinks at a cocktail party.

Will the next few hours be both didactic and entertaining, providing us with ample high and lowbrow cocktail party fodder?

At a recent cocktail party, a woman stuck out her hand and asked Glenda Bailey-Mershon if she would read her fortune.

The Board of Inquiry, that afternoon, was more like a small and very sedate cocktail party.

It seemed to Lee that the young man had actually aged since the cocktail party at his house, earlier in the evening.

Their idea of sin in that town was to snub the wrong matron at a cocktail party; or not snub, as the case might be.

Now will you please tell me, if you know, whether all those invited to both the bridge party and the cocktail party are here?

The sort one usually gets at a cocktail party is the Bronx or Martini variety.

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