Meanings
plural Tupperware parties
- A party arranged by Tupperware ladies in their homes to sell Tupperware on the party plan, as a direct marketing concept.
Identified with her role as Tupperware party hostess, Ann doesn't seem happily at home in the social world.
2008, Don Herzog, Cunning, page 1541 more example
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
Translations
French réunion Tupperware
- réunion Tupperwareparty where Tupperware is sold
German Tupperparty
- Tupperpartyparty where Tupperware is sold
Japanese タッパーウェアパーティ
- タッパーウェアパーティ (Tappāwea pātī)party where Tupperware is sold
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Tupperware party. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tupperware%20party
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