beer bust

American  

noun

Informal.

1. a large, usually boisterous party, as for college students, club members, or soldiers, at which beer is the sole or principal beverage and is consumed in large quantities.

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Etymology

Origin of beer bust

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Back to the main event and the Sunday Beer Bust: We beginners could at least dance with each other and learn to stay out of the better couples’ path.

From Los Angeles Times

So back to the main event and the Sunday Beer Bust: We beginners could at least dance with each other and learn to stay out of the better couples’ path.

From Los Angeles Times

The predictions of a craft beer bust are not new, and they’re regularly dredged up every few months in one publication or another.

From Los Angeles Times

As fans of the movie know, that night in 1976 is pretty lame until somebody — it seems to be Wooderson, played by Matthew McConaughey — pulls together a “beer bust” at “the moon tower.”

From New York Times

The group sings soupy, over-orchestrated versions of Belorussian folk tunes and looks like a polka band that got lost on the way to a beer bust.

From Time Magazine Archive