Phrase guide
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noun
A situation in a film, television series, etc., in which a potential romantic couple meet for the first time in a way that is considered adorable, amusing, or cute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, narratology, sciences
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Synonyms: cute meet
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any such situation occurring in real life between a pair of people who are not yet acquainted, romantically or otherwise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Of characters in a story or people in real life: to meet each other in an adorable, amusing, or cute way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Accidentally coined by German-American film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), who had difficulty speaking English, to describe the encounter between the characters played by Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper in the 1938 film Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife.
