blind date

noun

blind date

noun
1

Idiomatic A date (romantic meeting) between two people who have never met before.

  • A blind date is a blinkered meeting / A rendez-vous with some person unknown / A secret tryst, a shady dealing / A gambler's chance when love's dice are thrown1978, “Blind Date”, in A Tonic for the Troops, performed by The Boomtown Rats:
  • Blind date—When parties do not Know each other.1922, The Tiller and Toiler, The Vocabulary of Jazzdom:
Related terms
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