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- noun A
party held before the start of an event, usually a public event.
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Examples
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Iconic Berkeley, Calif., institution Chez Panisse is about to complete four decades of cooking and is throwing a preparty, of sorts, to honor this benchmark.
News You Can Eat 2011
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On Massachusetts politics, see Van Beck Hall, Politics without Parties; Massachusetts, 1780–1791 Pittsburgh, 1972, which analyzes the shifting factions in a system of “preparty politics” but uses the terms “Federalist” and “Antifederalist” in discussing the convention as if there were two settled sides.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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On Massachusetts politics, see Van Beck Hall, Politics without Parties; Massachusetts, 1780–1791 Pittsburgh, 1972, which analyzes the shifting factions in a system of “preparty politics” but uses the terms “Federalist” and “Antifederalist” in discussing the convention as if there were two settled sides.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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On Massachusetts politics, see Van Beck Hall, Politics without Parties; Massachusetts, 1780–1791 Pittsburgh, 1972, which analyzes the shifting factions in a system of “preparty politics” but uses the terms “Federalist” and “Antifederalist” in discussing the convention as if there were two settled sides.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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A: This game is won not at the party but during the preparty.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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A: This game is won not at the party but during the preparty.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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Noelle had been hosting a preparty there for Kiran Hayess birthday fte in Boston, and I had gone to confront Sabine DuLac about her relationship with Ariana Osgood.
Paradise Lost Kate Brian 2009
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Noelle had been hosting a preparty there for Kiran Hayess birthday fte in Boston, and I had gone to confront Sabine DuLac about her relationship with Ariana Osgood.
Paradise Lost Kate Brian 2009
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A: This game is won not at the party but during the preparty.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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Recently I hosted a preparty for a concert that was held in downtown Louisville.
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