dage
English
editEtymology
editBlend of day + rage (“an exciting party”).
Noun
editdage (plural dages)
- (university slang, East Coast) A party held in the daytime.
- 2016 March 10, Ryan Cagide, “What not to do at a Rutgers dage”, in The Tab[1], archived from the original on 2020-06-24:
- So help me god, if I see someone just standing around at a dage acting like they're not having any fun at all, I will run inside, print out an application for Penn State, and force you to fill it out write in front of me. Have fun, that's what a dage is for, don't be a buzzkill.
- 2019 February 20, Ariana Pelosci, “No, I Would Not Like To 'Snage'”, in The Odyssey Online[2], archived from the original on 2023-04-08:
- Dages in general just isn't[sic] appealing, but going out in the middle of the afternoon in the snow is what I would least like to do on my day off. If I get a day off from school, I'm going to be using it to catch up on sleep and my Netflix shows.
- 2019 August 5, Natalia Alamdari, Brandon Holveck, “University of Delaware again ranks among the top party schools in the nation. Where did it fall?”, in The News Journal[3], archived from the original on 2023-04-08:
- Throughout the school year, some UD students embraced the designation, with the No. 1 moniker becoming an often-heard rallying cry during "dages" (daytime parties) and bar crawls alike.
- 2023 March 3, Meredith MacLean, “To BORG or not to BORG: Safe alternative or dangerous trend?”, in The Daily Targum[4], →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:
- As someone of legal drinking age who will likely never see another Rutgers dage in her life, the BORG doesn't catch my interest very much as a consumer. But when I got multiple doctors on my feed advocating for the use of a BORG as a harm reduction tactic, it piqued my interest.
Anagrams
editDanish
editNoun
editdage c
- indefinite plural of dag
Dutch
editPronunciation
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Verb
editdage
Noun
editdage
Gothic
editRomanization
editdagē
- Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌴
Hausa
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdagē m (possessed form dagen)
- fierce wild cat
Middle Dutch
editNoun
editdāge
- inflection of dach:
Old Saxon
editNoun
editdage
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