Noun
an afternoon party at which cocktails are served
Source: WordNetLife's just a cocktail party - on the street. Mick Jagger
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. Maureen Dowd
Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything. Teresa Medeiros
I‘ve given up trying to get invited to a cocktail party but I‘m going to the egg roll. I swear. Rachel Maddow
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. Amy Sedaris
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. Ina Garten