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sausage party

sausage party

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An informal social event attended mostly by men with few women
  • noun
  • /ˈsɔsɪdʒ ˈpɑrti/
  • NSFW
translation icon : fiesta de hombres
  • The tech conference turned into a real sausage party after the lunch break.

The fucking Underground Railroad was a sausage party.

Examples

  • Our team events shouldn't always be a sausage party; let's try to invite more colleagues.

  • He complained that every poker night was just another sausage party.

  • Last night, we had a sausage party at Jake's house.

  • Are you going to the sausage party this weekend?

  • They decided to have a sausage party at the cabin, where only the guys were invited.

  • The backyard was filled with laughter and loud music during their annual sausage party.

  • At the sausage party, it was clear that the few women present felt outnumbered.

Surface Forms

sausage party singular
sausage parties plural

Morphology

sausage + party

The phrase is slang that uses "sausage" as a sexualized/metaphorical reference to men rather than the literal food item, so the meaning 'a gathering mostly attended by men' is not directly derivable from knowing 'sausage' and 'party'. This is culturally specific and idiomatic, so an average B1 learner who knows the constituent words but hasn't seen the expression would likely misunderstand it or interpret it literally.

Etymology

The expression sausage party comes from a joking image: imagine a party where the food table is full of sausages and there are no women. So, the phrase means 'a gathering with mostly or only men'.