cocktail party
Noun
Meaning
an afternoon party at which cocktails are served
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Examples
Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.
Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.
I‘ve given up trying to get invited to a cocktail party but I‘m going to the egg roll. I swear.
On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris.
If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.