4/20 celebration

8.4

A gathering on April 20 where people celebrate and often use cannabis

noun
/fɔr ˈtwɛnti sɪlɪˈbreɪʃən/

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: celebración del 4/20

Thousands gathered at the park for the annual 4/20 celebration to advocate for cannabis legalization.

Examples

Are you going to the 4/20 celebration this year?
The annual 4/20 celebration in San Francisco attracts thousands of people.
Music and laughter filled the air during yesterday's 4/20 celebration at the university campus.
She wore a T-shirt advertising the local 4/20 celebration downtown.
Many cannabis enthusiasts gathered in the park for the annual 4/20 celebration to enjoy music and share stories.
During the 4/20 celebration, attendees enjoyed various cannabis-infused products and participated in lively discussions about legalization.
The city's 4/20 celebration attracted thousands of people, all eager to celebrate and promote cannabis culture.

Surface Forms

4/20 celebration singular

4/20 celebrations plural

Morphology

4/20 + celebration

A learner who recognises '4/20' as a date-like token and knows 'celebration' can infer this is an event held on April 20, so the temporal/location aspect is compositional. However, the specific association with cannabis culture and consumption is cultural and idiomatic rather than a predictable meaning of the constituents, so full comprehension requires extra cultural knowledge.

Etymology

4/20 Celebration comes from a story about students who used 4:20 as a secret meeting time after school to smoke marijuana. Over time 4:20 became a code for 'cannabis', so April 20 (4/20) turned into a day for public parties and events to celebrate and support it.