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-fest
suffix
a gathering together of, or a concentration of, or an event celebrating the modifying noun with which it combines US, 1865
Abbreviated from “festival”.- I was always on the lookout for new records to pep up those waxfests of ours. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 118, 1946
- Etc., etc., then finally disintegrating into a wild talkfest and yellfest and finally songfest with people rolling on the floor in laughter[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 23, 1958
- — American Speech, pp. 207–213, 1981: “Milwaukee medical maledicta”
- — American Speech, pp. 261–264, Fall 1984: “Another fest-icon”
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Fall 1986: “Beerfest, buelfest, sleepfest”
- The Gasworks. An excellent heavy metal bar. Always a babe fest. — Wayne’s World, 1992
- What’s with the screamfest? — Airheads, 1994
- Breaking from our gabfest, we dirty-danced to Tom Jones songs. — Anka Radakovich, The Wild Girls Club, 1994
- Chili Palmer. Chilly outside. Chili inside. It’s a regular fuckin’ chili-fest. — Get Shorty, 1995
- A major media opportunity [plugfest] to plug your new book mercilessly. Unless spite outdoes the puffery [...] when it becomes what the Sunday papers now call a slugfest. — David Rowan, A Glossary for the 90s, p. 125, 1998
- The Cannabis Cup is a huge smokefest[.] — Brian Preston, Pot Planet, p. 7, 2002
- Cornershop’s reference-fests, however, eschew accusations of ironic posturing. — Uncut, p. 88, May 2002
- [S]uch right-leaning slagfests as The O’Reilly Factor[.] — The Guardian, 25 July 2003
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