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afterparty noun

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Definition

a relaxed social event in which people sit and talk after they have been at a party or nightclub

afterparty verb

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to spend time at an afterparty
The hotel has a huge bar that we afterpartied in.

(Definition of afterparty noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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