1. meet cute - Noun
2. meet cute - Verb
(narratology, informal) A situation in a film, television series, etc., in which a potential romantic couple meet for the first time in a way that is considered adorable, amusing, or cute.
Synonym: cute meet
(by extension, informal) Any such situation occurring in real life between a pair of people who are not yet acquainted, romantically or otherwise.
meet cute (third-person singular simple present meets cute, present participle meeting cute, simple past and past participle met cute)
(intransitive, informal) Of characters in a story or people in real life: to meet each other in an adorable, amusing, or cute way. [from early 20th c.]
meet-cute (plural meet-cutes)
Alternative form of meet cute
meet-cute (third-person singular simple present meets-cute, present participle meeting-cute, simple past and past participle met-cute)
Alternative form of meet cute
meet-cute
Meet cute a la WYP: I paid her again and again to meet me, as many times (minus a few) until she was confident that I was loaded and did not know what a pre nup was. Source: Internet
There, of course, against all rules he has a meet-cute with another outsider (Rachel Weisz) involving elaborately designed sign language (a metaphor maybe, like much in Lanthimos’s world, for the odd ritual of dating), and they fall in love. Source: Internet
Their meet-cute continued as she kept bumping into him at clubs and coffee shops. Source: Internet
Their meet-cute is well documented; in 2000, Mary, a marketing executive from Tasmania, joined her housemate Andrew Miles at the Slip Inn – a pub on Sydney’s Darling Harbour – to meet another group that was in town for the Olympic Games. Source: Internet