The party that comes before
the main event.
To have an
afterparty before the actual party begins.
Preparties usually involve getting drunk and preparing oneself for the party to come. By the time the people get to the party they are already messed up and having fun.
Preparties often turn into small parties themselves.
The preparty is the appetizer to the
main course.
It can be used as a verb or a noun.
Verb: the act of going to a preparty, or participating in a preparty.
Noun: the preparty itself, the event before the party
Don: What time are you going to
gia's party?
Mike: I am not sure yet.
I was gonna go over to
Jake's house to preparty a little and then I was gonna head out after.
Daniel: Where's the preparty tonight?
Liz: I was planning on prepartying at Jake's.