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slumber party
noun
: an overnight gathering especially of teenage girls usually at one of their homes
Examples of slumber party in a Sentence
My 12-year-old daughter is having a slumber party tonight.
Recent Examples on the Web
Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium staff enjoyed a unique slumber party as snow blanketed the metro.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
In the film, Paxton, Alexa PenaVega, Kallie Flynn Childress, Brie Larson and Mika Boomer play 8th graders whose paths cross when a slumber party turns into a scavenger hunt full of hijinks.
—Lindsay Kimble, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
This is the music that carried us through break ups and mean girls, micro aggressions and self doubt, but also lifted us through mile 24 of a marathon and bachelorette weekends, slumber parties and carpool lines.
—Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
The simple plot follows a, yes, slumber party gone wrong when a power-tool-wielding maniac crashes the party and picks off the girls one by one.
—Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1925, in the meaning defined above
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“Slumber party.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slumber%20party. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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