party school

[ pahr-tee skool ]

/ ˈpɑr ti ˌskul /

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noun

a college or university with a reputation for having a large number of students who regularly party and drink alcohol or use drugs, but do not spend much time studying.

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Origin of party school

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby party school

party man, party politics, party poop, party pooper, party popper, party school, party wall, party whip, parula, parulis, parure

How to use party school in a sentence

Neither the Republican nor the Democratic party have done anything to consistently target Asian- American voters.
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Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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Although the NFL party animal loves flaunting his washboard abs, he seems more fratboy than Fabio.
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And then I did teachers all throughout elementary school and junior high for my friends.
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All my musical studies till now have been a mere going to school, a preparation for him.
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I ask for half a dozen projectors or so in every school, and for a well-stocked storehouse of films.
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Walls End Castle, when the party broke up, returned to its normal state.
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He was the most distinguished representative of the English school of composition, and was knighted in 1842.
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Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.
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