house party

noun

: a party lasting over one or more nights at a residence (such as a home or fraternity house)

Examples of house party in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Goons would record their blitz-style attacks in parks, parking garages, outside fast-food restaurants and at house parties. Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024 Roussel greeted constituents at a rock concert, joined a crowd gathered to watch the fireworks, dropped in on a house party and finally, the following morning, marched in a Bastille Day parade in the neighboring town Fresnes-sur-Escaut. Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 Police are searching for three suspects after a shooting at a house party in California on Sunday night that killed four people and injured at least three others. Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024 Sacramento sheriff’s deputies have arrested a suspect accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old man at a Rancho Cordova house party in 2022. Michael McGough, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024 The uninhibited Jamie urges the orderly Marian to stop fretting about their delivery deadline and make a fun road trip of their journey, with detours to lesbian bars along the way and a stopover at a house party of female college athletes. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024 The gang of teenagers recorded the blitz-style attacks on other teens in parks, parking garages, outside fast-food restaurants and at house parties. The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2024 The June 20, 2021 shooting interrupted a joyous, musical celebration of Guatemalan Summer Solstice and Father’s Day, when two gunmen opened fire at a packed house party on the 2100 block of Dunn Avenue in Richmond. Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024 Or did Texas socialite Margaret Sames concoct the drink during a house party in Mexico in 1948? Jenna Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of house party was in 1827

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“House party.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20party. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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