house party
noun
: a party lasting over one or more nights at a residence (such as a home or fraternity house)
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Investigators believe the shooting happened when a house party spilled out into a parking lot where the shooting happened.
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Katie Langford, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
Todd was attending a house party on June 17 with a friend when police broke the party up, according to his friend and his mother.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
The charges stem from a shooting that happened Oct. 21, 2023 during a house party on the 400 block of Shannon Way in Oakley.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2025
That's without mentioning a stellar soundtrack, its brilliantly caricaturish deconstruction of high school cliquery, and a house party worthy of the name Bogey Lowenstein (Kyle Cease).
—Michelle Kung, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Katie Langford, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
Todd was attending a house party on June 17 with a friend when police broke the party up, according to his friend and his mother.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
The charges stem from a shooting that happened Oct. 21, 2023 during a house party on the 400 block of Shannon Way in Oakley.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2025
That's without mentioning a stellar soundtrack, its brilliantly caricaturish deconstruction of high school cliquery, and a house party worthy of the name Bogey Lowenstein (Kyle Cease).
—Michelle Kung, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for house party
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“House party.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20party. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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