Party-hearty

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who parties heavily.

    "My family was a circle of all kinds of people—educators, high school dropouts, drop-dead beauties, a dentist, a mechanic, party-hearties, the serious ones, the quiet ones, talkers, gamblers, some in the mainstream, others who lived right on the edge, some who had gone over the edge."

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"My family was a circle of all kinds of people—educators, high school dropouts, drop-dead beauties, a dentist, a mechanic, party-hearties, the serious ones, the quiet ones, talkers, gamblers, some in the mainstream, others who lived right on the edge, some who had gone over the edge."

Etymology

From the verb phrase party hearty.

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