secret Santa
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noun
- a system whereby each member of a group chooses at random another member of the group for whom to buy a Christmas present at an agreed cost, so that each member buys one present and receives one present
- a person chosen in this way to buy another person's Christmas present
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How to use secret Santa in a sentence
Brian Ries talks to the Secret Santa's founder, hears about the wacky presents—and finds out what happens to those left giftless.
For instance, there might be Secret Santa-style gift exchanges for people interested primarily in books.
By Christmas, the site, RedditGifts.com, had registered 4,500 users in a Secret Santa gift exchange of massive proportions.
Administrators interested in guns even reached out expressing a hope of a Secret Santa-style exchange for gun-related items.