dinnertini

English

Etymology

Blend of dinner +‎ martini.

Noun

dinnertini (plural dinnertinis)

  1. A martini served with dinner.
    • 2009 January 23, Hanaiya Gholson, “What You're Doing Tonight: 1/26”, in WRC-TV[1], archived from the original on 26 August 2025:
      Chinese New Year's Dinnertini: Dinner and beverages to help you celebrate the coming of the New Lunar Year.
    • 2010 July 27, Biceman, ““Whimsy Abounds!!””, in Tripadvisor[2], archived from the original on 25 April 2015:
      A fellow colleague on extended TDY is staying at the mansion and set up a dinnertini party for our office. I have always heard about the mansion and now I had a reason to stay overnight!
    • 2025 June 19, Matt Lawton, “Super Smash Lovers Adventure” (12:02 from the start), in The Great North[3], season 5, episode 16, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):
      “Honeybee. Sorry. Breakfast beers turned into lunchtime lemon drops, and next thing you know, we were three dinner-tinis deep, and then we saw that stray cat again, so obviously we had to follow it and... Whoa!” “Hey, Wolf. [singsongy] Welcome home. [chuckles]” “I must be drunker than I thought. 'Cause there are two of you and it looks like we're missing an entire wall. Whoa! [grunts] I'm okay. This freezing, extremely hard ice broke my fall.”
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dinnertini.