What does "party" mean?

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<p>I knew there was trouble when my S said he’d been to a party where everyone brought a “handle”. </p>

<p>Me: “A handle? What’s that?”
S: “You know, a 1/2 gal bottle of liquor.”
Me: “Yikes”</p>

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I’d like to make a note of which school you attend.</p>

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<p>C’mon, how old are y’all? How 'bout “So tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1999”? That came out when I was in college.</p>

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<p>what about the phrase to “party hearty”, used very much as a verb.</p>

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<p>“Pre-party” in my day meant you’d smoke the good stuff with your close friends before you went to the party and had to share with the unwashed masses. Of course, they has just been doing the same.</p>

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<p>1999 came out in 1982–I was out of college by then.</p>

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<p>“C’mon, ho old are y’all?”</p>

<p>Older than you! (out of grad school by then!) I was involved in that video production. I was living in Hollywood at the time and believe me when I say:WE PARTIED. We partied before the video, during the video and after the video. In short, “party” was a serious action verb in the early eighties and well before.</p>

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<p>Well, OK, but I still want to know what it means now.</p>

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<p>Well my point is that it depends on who you are and where you are.
I’m sure that “party” means something different to a freshman girl at BYU or a frat boy at ASU. Twas ever thus.
(in short—ask your son! :slight_smile: )</p>

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<p>Gosh, I feel so youthful~!</p>

<p>musica, are you on camera? Are you one of those girls playing the organ??? ;)</p>

<p>Party is definitely in the eye of the beholder. Not that I would ever say it, but if I were to say “I partied” last night it likely would mean I had a couple of drinks and danced and flirted shamelessly. But I imagine for a lot of college-age students, drugs would be involved.</p>

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<p>From Osdad: “Pre-party” in my day meant you’d smoke the good stuff with your close friends before you went to the party and had to share with the unwashed masses. Of course, they has just been doing the same. </p>

<p>What kind of school was that? :)</p>

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<p>I think “prefunc” is preferred over pre-party. Also pregame</p>

<p>[Urban</a> Dictionary: Prefunc](<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Prefunc]Urban”>Urban Dictionary: Prefunc)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pregame[/url]”>Urban Dictionary: Pre-Game;

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<p>I have never heard anyone use “preparty” or “prefunc”. (I do love the P-Funk, though.) Pregame, constantly.</p>

<p>Like many words, I think “party” has a spectrum of related meanings depending on the context. A group of young, nerdy gamers may well use it, semi-ironically, to refer to getting a pizza and dropping some Mentos into a 2-liter Coke bottle, and other such hilarity. But if they were asked, “Do you party?”, they would know that the correct answer was “No” (unless, of course, it wasn’t).</p>

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<p>I have never heard anyone use “preparty” or “prefunc”. (I do love the P-Funk, though.) Pregame, constantly.</p>

<p>Like many words, I think “party” has a spectrum of related meanings depending on the context. A group of young, nerdy gamers may well use it, semi-ironically, to refer to getting a pizza and dropping some Mentos into a 2-liter Coke bottle, and other such hilarity. But if they were asked, “Do you party?”, they would know that the correct answer was “No” (unless, of course, it wasn’t).</p>

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<p>Depends on the party. A frat party might resemble those cliched parties where everyone’s wasted and hooking up and throwing up etc. etc. etc.</p>

<p>Most parties are probably apartment parties though, where there’s alcohol and people stand around talking, drinking, and maybe dancing. The craziness just varies based on the people there.</p>

<p>A dorm party means a bunch of people in a dorm drinking.</p>

<p>Pre-gaming means drinking alcohol (usually shots) before an event (such as a party).</p>

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<p>Party is a new verb? Ha.</p>

<p>Have people here forgotten K.C. and Sunshine Band’s 1979 album “Do You Wanna Go Party?” He doesn’t say go TO a party. And I doubt that he was the first to use it.</p>

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<p>It all depends on the context, but usually, “Do you party?” means, “Do you smoke pot?” But, in other contexts it means drinking. Rarely, if ever, does it refer to cake and ice cream.</p>

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<p>We said pre-func in our day. It usually meant drinking before the drinking that was going to happen later! Party usually meant pot was involved. Today the term I hear from my college boy is rage, (sometimes party) not exactly sure what that involves but I have a pretty good idea.</p>

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<p>It is not called pre partying, that was the phrase we used back in our day.The kids refer to it as pre gaming today. </p>

<p>Partying means just what it meant back in our day and I will leave that up to your imagination. (smile face)</p>

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<p>I think the authority on Partying (yes, it is capitalized on purpose) is Andrew W.K. A quick youtube search or a look at his twitter feed will confirm. [ANDREW</a> WK (AndrewWK) on Twitter](<a href=“http://twitter.com/ANDREWWK]ANDREW”>http://twitter.com/ANDREWWK)</p>

<p>Sample:</p>

<p>PARTY TIP: This October has 5 weekends! It only happens once every 939 years! Take full advantage.</p>