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dinnertini en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of dinner + martini.

Meanings

1. A martini served with dinner.
   • Chinese New Year's Dinnertini: Dinner and beverages to help you celebrate the coming of the New Lunar Year. 2009 January 23, Hanaiya Gholson, “What You're Doing Tonight: 1/26”, in WRC-TV, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2025:
   • A fellow colleague on extended TDY is staying at the mansion and set up a dinnertini party for our office. I have always heard about the mansion and now I had a reason to stay overnight! 2010 July 27, Biceman, ““Whimsy Abounds!!””, in Tripadvisor, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2015:
   • “Honeybee. Sorry. Breakfast beers turned into lunchtime lemon drops, and next thing you know, we were three dinner-tinis deep, and then we saw that stray cat again, so obviously we had to follow it and... Whoa!” “Hey, Wolf. [singsongy] Welcome home. [chuckles]” “I must be drunker than I thought. 'Cause there are two of you and it looks like we're missing an entire wall. Whoa! [grunts] I'm okay. This freezing, extremely hard ice broke my fall.” 2025 June 19, Matt Lawton, “Super Smash Lovers Adventure” (12:02 from the start), in The Great North, season 5, episode 16, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):

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