meetup

See also: meet up and meet-up

English

Alternative forms

• meet-up

Etymology

Deverbal from meet up.

Noun

meetup (plural meetups)

1. An arranged informal meeting.

   We had our meetup in the local library, because of its central location.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meetup.

Noun

meetup m (plural meetups)

1. meetup

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.