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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cocktail party¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Looking past the cocktail parties and private jets, the big news this year is how governments are walking back climate goals they made years ago.

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Finally, at a cocktail party in late March, she spotted him.

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“Hey, X, when you go to a cocktail party, you pick up a little conversation here, another conversation there,” Disney told the animator.

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An enormous cocktail party was not on Ibsen’s itinerary—there is no jazz band in “Hedda Gabler”—but there was a similar sense of impending disaster, before and during the evening in question.

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Hogan was at a cocktail party before the 2023 Edgar Awards, where he was nominated for his last novel, “Gangland,” when his literary agent told him about the project and stipulations associated with it.

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