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pit party

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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Ah we would go to parties ah so people’s parents would go away for the weekend and then they’d throw a big party or there used to be, what- what they’re called around here, is a pit party, where it's an actual pit, and maybe it’s a gravel pit or-something and someone has a party there.
Ah we would go to parties ah so people's parents would go away for the weekend and then they'd throw a big party or there used to be, what- what they're called around here, is a pit party, where it's an actual pit, and maybe it's a gravel pit or-something and someone has a party there. Ah we would go rockin'-bowing, where they have it in Peterborough they turn down all the lights, and there was a disco ball ...
Bonfire parties taking place at local gravel mining pits, for the most part held by teenagers and young adults at night in the wilderness.
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Speaker: Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle. Um and yeah we did that on quite a few weekends I guess during the summer.
Speaker: Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle. Um and yeah we did that on quite a few weekends I guess during the summer.
Parties in a gravel pit
Speaker: Ah we would- I think more have house party. Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle.
Bonfire parties taking place at local gravel mining pits, for the most part held by teenagers and young adults at night in the wilderness.
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So, I-don't-know. There were a lot- I know there was a lot of- there were a lot of pit parties and there were a lot um bonfires and camp-outs and-stuff that- with strict parents, you can't go out drinking.
Yeah, this is beach-volleyball, too. Ah and a- and a fire-pit. And ah we'd hang out there a lot. ... So, I-don't-know. There were a lot- I know there was a lot of- there were a lot of pit parties and there were a lot um bonfires and camp-outs and-stuff that- with strict parents, you can't go out drinking.
Bonfire parties taking place at local gravel mining pits, for the most part held by teenagers and young adults at night in the wilderness.
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Speaker: And ah, you-know we made our own fun. ... We- we always had something to do, we had- you-know, when we got our license and-that, we'd go to the pit, the gravel pits. Interviewer: You had pit parties? Speaker: Yeah pit parties. ... And ah, you-know we'd be drinking under-age of-course, but who cares?
Bonfire parties taking place at local gravel mining pits, for the most part held by teenagers and young adults at night in the wilderness.
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Interviewer: Yeah. Is that where you- your favourite place to party would be though, when you were younger, would be out at the pits? Speaker: When I was in Elliot-Lake in ah, nineteen-seventy-nine, we started the pit party.
Speaker: Um we had pit parties at Twin-Lakes, we had big pit parties. Interviewer: They don't do that anymore. Speaker: No well- Interviewer: Cross-Lake. Speaker: People that own the pit- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Find out that there's ah, three-hundred drunk kids on their pit on Saturday night.
Interviewer: Is that where you- your favourite place to party would be though, when you were younger, would be out at the pits? Speaker: When I was in Elliot-Lake in ah, nineteen-seventy-nine, we started the pit party. ... In there, about twenty-five miles out of town at a big- huge big pit. And ah, when I came back from there I said, "Hey, guess what we were doing in Elliot-Lake?"
Bonfire parties taking place at local gravel mining pits, for the most part held by teenagers and young adults at night in the wilderness.
Interviewer: You would have parties at Pete's-Dam though? ... Speaker: A whole life time ago. ... Um we had pit parties at Twin-Lakes, we had big pit parties. Interviewer: They don't do that anymore. Speaker: No well- ... People that own the pit- ... Find out that there's ah, three-hundred drunk kids on their pit on Saturday night.
Bonfire parties taking place at local gravel mining pits, for the most part held by teenagers and young adults at night in the wilderness.