meetup

American  

[meet-uhp] / ˈmitˌʌp /

Or meet-up

noun

1. 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.

---

Usage

What does meetup mean? 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.

Etymology

Origin of meetup

2000-05; meet ¹ + up, popularized by Meetup , name of a website

Example Sentences

She tells me that when she hosted a meetup at a New Jersey mall in September, 87,000 screaming fans had mobbed the place.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr Arnot and Mr Male set up an Excel meetup group this year in Bristol that has more than 150 members from across the west country and some from the south of England.

From BBC

Amtrak doesn’t play favorites in the dining car, so meals are another built-in meetup.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hansen went solo to the August Junk Journal Club meetup, but within an hour, she was fangirling with a pair of roommates — 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.

From Los Angeles Times

It was the first time she had been to the restaurant, she said, after someone in the dining club suggested it as a meetup spot.

From Los Angeles Times