meet cute

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 12/31/05, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=309&VName=HNP&did=413486531
> Los Angeles Times, Dec 16, 1945, p. F12
> "They Met Cute" by Jerrold Beim.
> Bill was trying to think of a new way for boy and girl to meet. Then
> it happened.
> A Short Short Story.
> [...]
> "You're a genius, H.T. No denying that. The way you just described for
> Joe and Hortense to meet would be wonderful -- in one of your novels.
> But this is a motion picture. They can't meet in such a grim fashion.
> They've got to meet -- cute."
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* meet-cute, n.

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New York Times, Oct 12, 1952, (Book Review) p. 24/1
This may well be, in magazine parlance, the neatest meet-cute of the
week -- the story of a ghost-writer who falls in love with a ghost.
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--Ben Zimmer