house party

1. noun, esp. N. Amer., social gathering in a private home, usually with (live) music, food, dancing, etc. (COD); 2. attributive

1.
“They used to go around in the wintertime to house parties, like, you know. They’d play cards and play for ducks or geese or whatever, like, you know.”

“At the house parties that we hosted or went around to, it was always records. But we would have square danced. There would be one record that probably went from house to house.”

“There would be house parties too and box socials. They called them box socials.”

“That was, more or less, in my mother’s day, where they had house parties, and the fiddlers.”

“When I was young we used to go to Simcoe Island about once a year for a weekend, house parties. It usually lasted a weekend.”

“I can remember playing at house parties after I grew up.”

“Did you dance more at house parties than at halls?”

“Did they have guitars at house parties? We only had violin and piano.”

“We’d have lots of house parties. My dad played the mouth organ.”

“I remember once Tom and I went to a house party, and the lads knew that Tom was a little bit jealous, and I was the most popular girl that night.”

“I’ve heard Joe say, it didn’t happen up in our neighbourhood, but there used to be house parties down here. And he said Len was one of the guys played. And on the night if they wanted to play longer they’d pass the hat around take up a collection to ask them to play longer.”

2.
“And then usually the Smiths would have a big dance, and we’ve had a dance here.”
“House party dances.”
“Yeah, house party dances in the wintertime, eh.”