beer bust

noun

, Informal.

1. a large, usually boisterous party, as for college students, club members, or soldiers, at which beer is the sole or principal beverage and is consumed in large quantities.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beer bust¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Here was an example of corporate America acknowledging Latinos — a trade-off that led to Cinco de Mayo’s “degeneration into a multicultural beer bust” and helped facilitate increased rates of alcoholism among Mexican Americans, Acuña argued.

From Los Angeles Times

The predictions of a craft beer bust are not new, and they’re regularly dredged up every few months in one publication or another.

From Los Angeles Times

Kendrick was a high school maths teacher who made a novelty record – Beer Bust Blues – in 1965, which gave him the music bug, and set him looking for bands to record.

From The Guardian

As fans of the movie know, that night in 1976 is pretty lame until somebody — it seems to be Wooderson, played by Matthew McConaughey — pulls together a “beer bust” at “the moon tower.”

From New York Times

Occasionally, people having a backyard beer bust will even break out in a cheer, college-style: "O-R-I-O-L-E-S!"

From Time Magazine Archive