Tupperware party

Tupperware party (plural Tupperware parties)

1. A party arranged by Tupperware ladies in their homes to sell Tupperware on the party plan, as a direct marketing concept.
   • 1966, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 1:

     One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue […]

   • 2008, Don Herzog, Cunning, page 154:

     Identified with her role as Tupperware party hostess, Ann doesn't seem happily at home in the social world.

• party plan