Tupperware party

noun

A party arranged by Tupperware ladies in their homes to sell Tupperware on the party plan, as a direct marketing concept.

Meanings

nounTupperware party (plural Tupperware parties)

plural Tupperware parties

  1. 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 154
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    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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MLA

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Chicago

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