meets cute

Verb

meet cute (third-person singular simple present meets cute, present participle meeting cute, simple past and past participle met cute)

1. (informal, intransitive) Of characters in a story or people in real life: to meet each other in an adorable, amusing, or cute way.
   • "The rest of the script is fine, boys," said Mr. Trumpett. "You've got nice situations and I like the way you've handled your story line and I like your finish—we're going to have a nice little picture when we get through with it—but, frankly, I don't like your beginning. They don't meet cute."1937 May 22, Alan Campbell, “They Meet Cute”, in The New Yorker, volume 13, number 14, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, column 1

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