Surstromming; Afterparty (1977); Mocktail (1956); New York Herald

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 04:42:48AM -0500, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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> AFTERPARTY
>
> AFTERPARTY--81,600 Google hits, 4,860 Google Groups hits
> AFTER PARTY--151,000 Google hits, 9,890 Google Group hits
>
>    I've been seeing "afterparty" a lot.  What's an "afterparty"?  Sleep?
>    Are there after-recipes for it?
>    WordSpy (added April 30, 2002) has "afterparty" from March 17, 1980 in the
> WASHINGTON POST.  Google Groups has it only from 1990.

The OED entry, which should be appearing in the next batch or two,
has a first quote of 1961.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED