block party

noun

: an outdoor public party put on by the residents of a city block or neighborhood

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About 8,000 people rang in the new year at one of San Francisco's biggest annual block parties, per the organizers. Nadia Lopez, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025 Everyone’s various infidelities and fights reach boiling point, with Karl and Orson coming to blows at the Christmas block party, Dylan discovering her mother has been lying to her, and Lynette attempting to apologize to Gaby and Carlos for suing them. Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024 The numbers are especially meaningful for the Brooklyn community, where a mass shooting in July 2023 tore through an annual summer block party, leaving two people dead and 28 others injured in the courtyard of an aging public housing development. Lea Skene, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2024 Mahan pictures it as a series of concerts, block parties, watch parties and more that leverages the city’s public spaces like Arena Green and Plaza de Cesar Chavez. Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for block party

Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of block party was in 1902

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“Block party.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/block%20party. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.

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