meet cute
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
A situation in a film, television series, etc., in which a potential romantic couple meet…
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.
- If this is a distortion of reality, it is a knowingly utopian gesture, and the wit of such conceits lies in placing in tension the ideal with the real and so being more than a series of fancy ‘meet cutes’: […]
Any such situation occurring in real life between a pair of people who are not yet…
Any such situation occurring in real life between a pair of people who are not yet acquainted, romantically or otherwise.
- A short meet-cute dialogue ensues, detailing exactly how many hours of interviews [Steven] Levitt had agreed to (two), and exactly how much of his time [Stephen] Dubner actually ended up taking (three days).
Of characters in a story or people in real life
Of characters in a story or people in real life: to meet each other in an adorable, amusing, or cute way.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA