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Tupperware party en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. A party arranged by Tupperware ladies in their homes to sell Tupperware on the party plan, as a direct marketing concept.
   • One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue […] 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 1:
   • Identified with her role as Tupperware party hostess, Ann doesn't seem happily at home in the social world. 2008, Don Herzog, Cunning, page 154:

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party plan

Translations (3)

fr réunion Tupperware (party where Tupperware is sold) · de Tupperparty (party where Tupperware is sold) · ja タッパーウェアパーティ (party where Tupperware is sold)