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bush party

bush party noun: an outdoor social gathering held in a wooded area or a field, especially one attended primarily by young people at which alcohol is drunk.

Noun

bush party (plural bush parties)

  1. (Canada) An outdoor social gathering held in a wooded area or a field, especially one attended primarily by young people at which alcohol is drunk.
    • Many stories are told over there about the bush parties to which the men go. I saw a one-act play, one might call it, depicting the men enjoying themselves at one of these beer bush parties and the consequences of over-consumption of this terrible stuff manufactured under very primitive and...1961 September 7, John Mathison, quotee, New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), volume 328, Wellington, New Zealand: R. E. Owen, published 1962, page 2113, column 2
    • Young people were largely allowed to have unsupervised grad bush parties where liquor and drugs were assumed to be freely available. This was not seen as an isolated Spring event, but rather part of the whole fabric of the community.1983, Alcoholism: Strategies for Northern Alberta, Northern Alberta Development Council, page 72

Examples of bush party in a sentence

  • The ladies enacted the bush party, and it seemed to me a wonderful moral lesson to the young people to keep away from beer parties of that nature.1961 September 7, John Mathison, quotee, New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), volume 328, Wellington, New Zealand: R. E. Owen...
  • “This Chevy would be an asset at a bush party because you could slide open the back window and blast the stereo,” she noted.1990 April, Mark Ginsburg, “Truckin’”, in Vanity Fair, volume 53, New York: Condé Nast, retrieved 21 Jan 2022, page 202:
  • The Bush Party was heralded as a badge of hardiness.2003, Robert A. Wardhaugh, “‘Bush Parties and Booze Cruises’: A Look at Leisure in a Small Town”, in Raymond Blake, Andrew Nurse, editors...

Forms of bush party

pluralbush parties

Questions about bush party

What does bush party mean?
Bush party means an outdoor social gathering held in a wooded area or a field, especially one attended primarily by young people at which alcohol is drunk.
How do you use bush party in a sentence?
The ladies enacted the bush party, and it seemed to me a wonderful moral lesson to the young people to keep away from beer parties of that nature.
What part of speech is bush party?
Bush party is a noun.
What is the plural of bush party?
The plural of bush party is bush parties.

Words near bush party in the dictionary

  1. Bush Negro
  2. Bush Negroes
  3. Bush Negros
  4. bush out
  5. bush parties
  6. bush party
  7. bush pee
  8. bush peed
  9. bush peeing
  10. bush pees
  11. bush pig

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