postparty

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From post- +‎ party.

Adjective[edit]

postparty (not comparable)

  1. After a party.
    • 2003, Good Housekeeping, volume 237, page 36:
      Postparty steps: Pretreat with a heavy-duty liquid laundry detergent or prewash product, then wash.
    • 2013, Ryu Murakami, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy, Popular Hits of the Showa Era:
      It was at the sixth party, when she'd failed to materialize for the second consecutive time, that Nobue proposed the postparty ritual that was to become such an important part of their lives.
    • 2015 August 31, Sarah Maslin Nir, “Burning Man’s Fashion Is Wild, but There Are Rules”, in New York Times[1]:
      And outrage flies through the Internet about any item that will flutter away or fall apart, adding extra chores to the postparty cleanup, or “mooping.”