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a plan that survives three reschedules and one mysteriously canceled person to finally exist.
means An informal social gathering, usually small and casual, where people meet up to spend time together.
from A plain compound of the phrasal verb "get together" — to assemble or come into one another's company — eventually fused into a single noun. The verb "get" comes from Old Norse "geta" (to obtain, reach), and "together" descends from Old English "tōgædere," built from "tō" plus a root meaning "to gather, unite" — a cousin of "gather" itself. So at its bones, the word literally means "come to gather," which is exactly what these things are when they manage to happen.
- group chat
- where most gettogethers are born and quietly die
- BYOB
- shifts cost and chaos onto the guests
- potluck math
- six people, eleven dishes, zero entrees
- departure ritual
- the goodbye that takes forty more minutes
- introvert tax
- social fun billed in next-day recovery time
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