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

Hosting casual meetups, like coffee chats or team lunches, can help employees reconnect and build rapport. —Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025

One of the meetup group’s only outspokenly anti-Trump members was just as thrilled. —Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025

Like most members of the meetup, Cherkas plans to rebuild. —Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025

Creators said that people would have a harder time discovering outdoors activities and meetups around them. —Taylor Lorenz, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for meetup

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup