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rent party
noun
a party thrown for the purpose of collecting donations from friends to pay your rent US, 1925- They came and went from the apartment houses where the after-hours joints were jumping and the house-rent parties swimming, and the whores plying their trade and the gamblers clipping chumps. — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 130, 1957
- — Robert S. Gold, A Jazz Lexicon, p. 248, 1964
- I’m gonna play the piano at three rent parties next weekend. — Louise Meriwether, Daddy Was a Number Runner, p. 30, 1970
- Every Friday night Bob and Virginia had a rent party. You danced, you drank, and you brought money. — Larry Rivers, What Did I Do?, p. 126, 1992
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