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sesh

/sɛʃ/

sesh noun: a period of time spent engaged in some group activity.

Noun

sesh (plural seshes)

  1. (colloquial) A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
    • 'We're not going to win a prize for graphics,' said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week.July 18, 1987, Financial Times, page 6
    • "There's no opportunity either to take rhythm & blues or leave it alone at this sesh at the Apollo."2005, Bruce Pegg, Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry, Routledge, page 51
  2. (colloquial) An informal social get-together or meeting to perform a group activity.
    • Then it was on to the wallride for a sesh where numerous tricks were thrown down.2007 April 11, Dave Driscoll, “Get Off the Bus Tour: Update #2”, in Transworld Snowboarding Magazine, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2007
    • Halo sesh2002, (Usenet)
  3. (Ireland, UK, colloquial, informal) A period of sustained social drinking or recreational drug taking.
    • Empty lager bottles […] signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert sesh.1944, George Netherwood, Desert Squadron, Cairo: R. Schindler, page 119
    • Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox[…]1999, Ian Rankin, Black and Blue, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 39
  4. (Australia, Canada, US, colloquial, informal) A period of sustained cannabis smoking.

Verb

sesh (third-person singular simple present seshes, present participle seshing, simple past and past participle seshed)

  1. (colloquial, intransitive) To take part in a period of sustained cannabis smoking.

Forms of sesh

Noun
pluralseshes
Verb
third-person singular presentseshes
present participleseshing
past participleseshed
pastseshed

Origin of sesh

Clipping of session.

Words formed from sesh

Words that rhyme with sesh

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Questions about sesh

What does sesh mean?
Sesh means a period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
What part of speech is sesh?
Sesh can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce sesh?
Sesh is pronounced /sɛʃ/.
What is the plural of sesh?
The plural of sesh is seshes.

Words near sesh in the dictionary

  1. sescuple
  2. seseli
  3. seselis
  4. Seselwa
  5. SESes
  6. sesh
  7. Sesha
  8. Seshadri
  9. Seshadris
  10. Seshagiri
  11. Seshat

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