overcelebrate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To overindulge in activities that celebrate something

   To overindulge in activities that celebrate something; to party too hard.

   • As you can see, I've overcelebrated the holidays.
   • Maggie took the wheel of the Spyder for the trip home, Paul having overcelebrated the victory.
   • Several of them were clearly highly respectable businessmen who had overcelebrated the previous evening and whose melancholic airs were born of a blend of natural hangover and of genuine mortification at their predicament.
2. 2

   To treat as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved.

   • According to Conradt (2001), The simple lesson to be learned from the whale trainers is to overcelebrate. Make a big deal out of the good and little stuff that we want consistently.
   • There is a highly competitive and emulous scramble to find the Next Big Thing in prostate cancer, and that is invariably accompanied by a tendency to overcelebrate breakthroughs and vastly exaggerate triumphs
   • The urge to overcelebrate the promise has had many sources.

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