meet-cute
noun
variants
or less commonly meet cute
plural meet-cutes also meet cutes
: a cute, charming, or amusing first encounter between romantic partners (as in a movie)
It's a meet-cute where they fall immediately in love: her because he's handsome; him because she forgets a pen to write with.—Mark Abraham
Rom-com tropes like the "meet-cute" are so tired that you can't just spoof them—you have to spoof the spoofs …—Stephan Lee
… upper-middlebrow "meet cutes" such as in Nora Ephron's popular You've Got Mail …—James Wolcott
meet cute
intransitive verb
or less commonly meet-cute
met cute also met-cute; meeting cute also meeting-cute; meets cute also meets-cute
In a charmingly old-fashioned plot, they meet cute, and she thinks it's true love …
—David Hiltbrand
… a picture-perfect love story about a man who uses paper planes to track down the woman he "met cute" at the train station.
—Huma Qureshi
… leading two people on a chase through the streets of Paris until they meet-cute in front of the Eiffel Tower.
—Deb Amlen
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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