overcelebrate

English

Alternative forms

• over-celebrate

Etymology

over- +‎ celebrate

Verb

overcelebrate (third-person singular simple present overcelebrates, present participle overcelebrating, simple past and past participle overcelebrated)

1. To overindulge and stay up too late in activities that celebrate something; to party too hard.
   • 1989, No easy place to be, page 114:

     As you can see, I've overcelebrated the holidays.

   • 1997, Tony Chiu, Positive Match, →ISBN, page 124:

     Maggie took the wheel of the Spyder for the trip home, Paul having overcelebrated the victory.

   • 2013, Michael Underwood, Murder Made Absolute, →ISBN:

     Several of them were clearly highly respectable businessmen who had overcelebrated the previous evening and whose melancholic airs were born of a blend of natural hangover and of genuine mortification at their predicament.

2. To treat as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved.
   • 2004, Marilyn L. Grady, 20 Biggest Mistakes Principals Make and How to Avoid Them, →ISBN, page 5:

     According to Conradt (2001), The simple lesson to be learned from the whale trainers is to overcelebrate. Make a big deal out of the good and little stuff that we want consistently.

   • 2013, Jack McCallum, The Prostate Monologues, →ISBN:

     There is a highly competitive and emulous scramble to find the Next Big Thing in prostate cancer, and that is invariably accompanied by a tendency to overcelebrate breakthroughs and vastly exaggerate triumphs

   • 2015, Albert E. Cowdrey, This Land, This South: An Environmental History, →ISBN, page 197:

     The urge to overcelebrate the promise has had many sources.