User:Dianana/sandbox

Pronunciation
(sĕsh)
 * Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Noun

 * 1) (colloquial)  Short form of session.  A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
 * 2) (slang) An informal get-together or meeting to perform a group activity.  A sesh may or may not have a defined goal to accomplish but encompasses an implicit goal of a social bonding experience.
 * 3) (colloquial, in U.K.)  A period of sustained social drinking.

Quotations
Meaning 1:
 * July 18, 1987, Financial Times, page 6,
 * "'We're not going to win a prize for graphics,' said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week."
 * 2005, Bruce Pegg, Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry, Routledge, page 51,
 * "There's no opportunity either to take rhythm & blues or leave it alone at this sesh at the Apollo."

Meaning 2:
 * Examples of usage in Usenet groups:
 * Playing video games together: "Halo sesh" (2002)
 * Surfing: "Went out for a quick sesh today in Huntington.  Wore my spring suit." (2003)

Meaning 3:
 * 1944, George Netherwood, Desert Squadron, Cairo, R. Schindler, page 119,
 * "Empty lager bottles … signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert sesh."
 * 1999, Ian Rankin, Black and Blue, St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312966776, page 39,
 * "Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox…"