"dage" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dages [plural]
Etymology: Blend of day + rage (“an exciting party”). Etymology templates: {{blend|en|day|rage|t2=an exciting party}} Blend of day + rage (“an exciting party”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dage (plural dages)
  1. (university slang, East Coast) A party held in the daytime. Tags: East-Coast Categories (topical): Universities Synonyms: darty, dayger
    Sense id: en-dage-en-noun-UX15V4Y3 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2016 March 10, Ryan Cagide, “What not to do at a Rutgers dage”, in The Tab, archived from the original on 2020-06-24",
          "text": "So help me god, if I see someone just standing around at a dage acting like they're not having any fun at all, I will run inside, print out an application for Penn State, and force you to fill it out write in front of me. Have fun, that's what a dage is for, don't be a buzzkill.",
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          "text": "Dages in general just isn't appealing, but going out in the middle of the afternoon in the snow is what I would least like to do on my day off. If I get a day off from school, I'm going to be using it to catch up on sleep and my Netflix shows.",
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          "ref": "2019 August 5, Natalia Alamdari, Brandon Holveck, “University of Delaware again ranks among the top party schools in the nation. Where did it fall?”, in The News Journal, archived from the original on 2023-04-08",
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          "ref": "2023 March 3, Meredith MacLean, “To BORG or not to BORG: Safe alternative or dangerous trend?”, in The Daily Targum, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-08",
          "text": "As someone of legal drinking age who will likely never see another Rutgers dage in her life, the BORG doesn't catch my interest very much as a consumer. But when I got multiple doctors on my feed advocating for the use of a BORG as a harm reduction tactic, it piqued my interest.",
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