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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛʃ
(sĕsh)
Noun[edit]
sandbox (plural seshes)
- (colloquial) Short form of session. A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
- (slang) An informal get-together or meeting to perform a group activity. A sesh may or may not have a defined goal to accomplish but encompasses an implicit goal of a social bonding experience.
- (colloquial, in U.K.) A period of sustained social drinking.
Quotations[edit]
Meaning 1:
- July 18, 1987, Financial Times, page 6,
- "'We're not going to win a prize for graphics,' said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week."
- 2005, Bruce Pegg, Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry, Routledge, page 51,
- "There's no opportunity either to take rhythm & blues or leave it alone at this sesh at the Apollo."
Meaning 2:
- Examples of usage in Usenet groups:
Meaning 3:
- 1944, George Netherwood, Desert Squadron, Cairo, R. Schindler, page 119,
- "Empty lager bottles … signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert sesh."
- 1999, Ian Rankin, Black and Blue, St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312966776, page 39,
- "Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox…"
References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Addition Series 1993
- The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Vol. II, 2005, Eric Partridge and Dalzell Victor Eds, Published by Taylor & Francis, ISBN: 041525938X, page 1699
- Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2006, Jonathon Green, Published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., ISBN: 0304366366, page 1252