stag party
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4.5
- noun
- /stæɡ ˈpɑrti/
- UK
:
despedida de soltero
- We're organizing a fun stag party for Tom this weekend before his wedding.
Examples
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You completely forgot about my stag party, didn't you?
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Well, they're having a little stag party for my brother.
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You boys planning on a stag party here tonight?
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We had a real high time at the stag party though, what I remember of it.
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It's not like him to be late for anything, especially his own stag party.
Fiction book (1997) -
The stag party has begun.
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Rehearsal's tomorrow, plus a stag party after.
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Tomorrow evening, Halliday, the American boyfriend, and I... ...will go out to a stag party.
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Just as you're supposed to organize my stag party.
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"Remember Jodie's stag party at Slippery's?" he began, as she settled across from him.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
138
2.8
A party for a man before he gets married with his male friends to celebrate
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
stag + party
Knowing 'stag' as a male (originally a male deer) plus 'party' will lead many learners to infer a men-only party, but the specific convention that it is a pre-wedding/bachelor celebration is not fully predictable from the literal parts. Regional usage (UK 'stag party' vs. US 'bachelor party') and the cultural pre-wedding sense make the relation partly inferable but requiring familiarity, so it is neither fully transparent nor fully idiomatic.
Etymology
The phrase stag party may come from stag, the word for a male deer, because old hunts and men-only gatherings were often called 'stag' events. So a stag party came to mean a 'men-only' party held 'before the wedding'.