meetup

See also: meet up and meet-up

English

Alternative forms

• meet-up

Etymology

Deverbal from meet up.

Pronunciation

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Noun

meetup (plural meetups)

1. An arranged informal meeting.

   We had our meetup in the local library, because of its central location.

Derived terms

• tweetup

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meetup.

Noun

meetup m (plural meetups)

1. meetup

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.