after-work
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈæftər wɜrk/
- Informal
:
quedada después del trabajo
- He was riding home after work to shower and change clothes before heading over to Beverly's.
- after-work drinks
- after-work crowd
- after-work happy hour
Examples
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You wanna do happy hour after work?
Fiction book (2000) -
Of course we're going for beers on the beach after work.
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Well, I could probably stop by after work.
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So, I go to work, and then after work sometimes I go have a beer.
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We'll go straight there after work.
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My pals usually stay for a drink after work.
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For a while, they had met after work at the gym.
Fiction book (1994) -
Sometimes he met Katherine downtown for a drink after work; sometimes he just went out by himself.
Fiction book (1991) -
Every weekday after work, we go to the gym, eat something healthy, and then live our lives.
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We're all going for drinks after work to unwind and catch up.
Synonyms
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1.9
A small informal meeting for people to talk and spend time together
A social event an employer arranges for employees to celebrate and relax
How Social
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
An after-work is a casual social event after the workday; the word comes from after ('following') and work ('work'), so it literally means a meeting that happens when work has finished.