afters

noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

Dessert.

What are we having for afters, Mum? I really want ice cream.

2

The festivities held after a wedding meal.

To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters.

3

Fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped.

42-2: From the other end Strauss has a bit of afters with Morne Morkel after yet another bouncer raps him on the gloves.

Clarke was dismissed in the sixty-seventh minute ... for overly enthusiastic afters with one of the Wexford players.

4

An after-hours drinking session in a public house.

The lights flashed when the landlord shouted, “Last round of drinks before bar closes. Here^([sic]) me folks, no 'Afters' tonight mates!”

It was an afters pub, which meant it closed at 11 p.m., doors bolted, but with us all inside.

5

After-school care service.

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