meetup

noun

meet·​up ˈmēt-ˌəp 

variants or meet-up

plural meetups or meet-ups

: an informal meeting or get-together

… people who frequently use their cell phones to communicate with others often do so to arrange face-to-face meetings. "For people that live locally or on campus, I'll text them to arrange a meetup if I want to talk to them and hang out …," [Sydney] Cole said.

—Samantha Savery

… wanting to believe that their dead loved one is living happily ever after and will be available for meet-ups later on …

—Gary J. Whittenberger

… nobody finds this impromptu UN meet-up unusual in Miami.

—Andrew Nelson

often, specifically : a social event for people with shared interests organized through the Meetup Internet service

They treat their bodies as guinea pigs and gather in meet-ups and conferences to swap stories—backed by data, of course—about the best ways to lose weight, work more efficiently and get smarter.

—Bryan Walsh

Examples of meetup in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At the event’s Music Festival section, there will be live showcases, industry meetups, networking and future-forward debate across the various Shoreditch venues. —Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025

Video game competitions, once the stuff of arcades, now fill hotel convention centers Head-to-head fighting games were born in the heyday of American arcade culture in the ‘90s and there were competitions even then — usually meetups at the local bowling alley or arcade or basement. —Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025

Rich Clarke, the bitcoin meetup group’s organizer, who works in real estate, told me. —Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025

No, these aren’t the Hell’s Angels gathering for a meetup. —Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above