Tupperware party

English

A home Tupperware Party (FL, 1958).

Noun

Tupperware party (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.
   • 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 1:

     One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue […]

   • 2008, Don Herzog, Cunning, page 154:

     Identified with her role as Tupperware party hostess, Ann doesn't seem happily at home in the social world.

Translations

party where Tupperware is sold

• French: réunion Tupperware (fr) f
• German: Tupperparty (de) f
• Japanese: タッパーウェアパーティ (Tappāwea pātī)

See also

• party plan