after-dinner speeches

A form of after-dinner speech — A public address event that is traditionally spoken after a dinner, and meant to take an important topic and make greater sense of it through the use of humor that is relevant to the idea presented.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of after-dinner speech
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