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meetup
[meet-uhp]
noun
a meeting, especially a regular meeting of people who share a particular interest and have connected with each other through a social-networking website.
a meetup for new moms in the neighborhood; a meetup to plan the trip.
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
No longer: Now there are governors and congresspeople in attendance, as well as big donors like Arnold Ventures and Open Philanthropy, helping to fund both the meetup and the activities of its attendees.
El Segundo native Adrianna Dreckmann, 25, who struggled to rebuild her social life in L.A. after attending college in the Midwest, went to an Oasis concert earlier this month with someone she met at a February club meetup.
Hansen went solo to the August Junk Journal Club meetup, but within an hour, she was fangirling with a pair of roomates — Paige Schaeffer, 27, and Millie Jones, 27 — whom she’d just met, about the cult-favorite Nathalie Lété Sticker Book and prominent junk journaler Martina Calvi, dubbed the “Craft Queen” by her followers.
“This is my second meetup, and it’s hard to leave without a smile on my face.”
“Whenever I buy stickers for myself, it’s kind of excessive,” said attendee Sophia Huang, 26, who drove from Anaheim to attend the meetup.
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When To Use
A meetup is an organized gathering of people, especially a regular meeting of people who share a common interest or hobby. It is usually initiated and arranged through a social network or website.Meet up (without the hyphen) is a phrasal verb meaning to meet, as in Let’s meet up at the restaurant. The term meetup as a noun was popularized by the website Meetup.com, which helps people organize such events.Example: After I moved here from the Midwest, I met most of my friends at an anime meetup.
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