meetup

Or meet-up

[meet-uhp]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of meetup¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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Pierre told detectives he had driven a ride-share passenger—maybe armed, he said—who wanted to buy marijuana at a dirt lot, which was popular as a local meetup spot.

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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.

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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.

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MAGA’s illusion that Portland is being run by antifa is a lot harder to pull off when the protesters look like they’re going to a kid’s birthday party and not an anarchist meetup.

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When To Use

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.