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cocktail party

noun

a social gathering, often held during the cocktail hour, at which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages, hors d'oeuvres, and canapés are served.

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First recorded in 1925–30

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In May, I attended one of their events — supposedly a symposium, definitely a cocktail party and perhaps a fundraiser — at a home in Brentwood.

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“Are you going to go to a cocktail party with somebody who’s super rich and then pass a law that benefits them?” he demanded.

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She was set to depart Accra, the Ghanaian capital, in hours, just after the embassy cocktail party ended.

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Embassy cocktail party, on Jan. 7, the day the Palisades fire broke out.

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And they’ll have plenty of fodder, beginning with photos of Bass at a cocktail party in Ghana on Jan. 7, while the Palisades began to burn.

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