kegger

noun

keg·​ger ˈke-gər How to pronounce kegger (audio)
: a party featuring one or more kegs of beer

called also keg party

Examples of kegger in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Many liked to go to the annual kegger in the helicopter hangar or to gather at Gallagher’s, the station’s watering hole. David Kushner, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2024 The days of the storied four-year residential college experience—filled with dorm living and fraternity keggers—are fading fast. Arne Duncan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2010 To help their kids navigate this difficult school year, many parents have made a choice to focus on sending positive rather than punitive messages in the hopes that their kids will make smart choices — even when they're tempted to go to a kegger or run around campus maskless. Lambeth Hochwald, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020 After some frosh hazing, the kids drive around, get high, look for something to do, hang out at a rec center, and eventually coalesce at a kegger out in the woods by an old light tower. Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for kegger 

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1955, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of kegger was circa 1955

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“Kegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kegger. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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