afters
nounEtymology From after + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
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Informal The festivities held after a wedding meal.
- To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Ireland, UK, Informal Fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped.
- 42-2: From the other end Strauss has a bit of afters with Morne Morkel after yet another bouncer raps him on the gloves.2010 David Lewis South Africa v England - as it happened: Proteas rip into top order as tourists flounder Daily Mail (16 January 2010)
- Clarke was dismissed in the sixty-seventh minute ... for overly enthusiastic afters with one of the Wexford players.2012 May 12, Nine-man Harps crushed in Wexford, Donegal News:
- The lights flashed when the landlord shouted, “Last round of drinks before bar closes. Here^([sic]) me folks, no 'Afters' tonight mates!”2013, Hopeton Gray, Mystic Journeys: Madagascar:
- It was an afters pub, which meant it closed at 11 p.m., doors bolted, but with us all inside.2017, Chris Difford, Some Fantastic Place: My Life In and Out of Squeeze:
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After-school care service.