User:Dianana/sandbox

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(sĕsh)

Noun[edit]

sandbox (plural seshes)

  1. (colloquial) Short form of session. A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
  2. (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.
  3. (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:
  • Playing video games together: "Halo sesh" (2002)
  • Surfing: "Went out for a quick sesh today in Huntington. Wore my spring suit." (2003)


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