Kneipen.
/ˈknʌɪpə/ A convivial meeting of German university students (and the like) at a tavern or restaurant.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > gathering at a tavern, etc.
club1648
Kommers1839
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Kneipe1854
1854 I. Aldridge Diary 9 June in Marshall & Stock Ira Aldridge (1958) 189 Visited a Knipe or a Society of German Students.
1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad iv. 43 Kneips are held, now and then [at the University of Heidelberg], to celebrate great occasions,—like the election of a beer king.
1911 R. Brooke Let. 31 Jan. (1968) 275 Last night he took me to a ‘Kneipe’. The students who are working at some special subject band together to form a club... Every Monday evening this Verein has a ‘Kneipe’, a meeting.
1924 A. Geikie Long Life's Work vii. 217 After the meetings during the day, every night a ‘Kneipe’ at which Zirkel, Lossen, Reusch..and a host of younger men took part.
Derivatives
kneip v. [after German kneipen] intransitive to indulge in this conviviality.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > attend gathering in tavern, etc.
kneip1864
1864 H. Mayhew German Life & Manners II. 243 Youths whose lives are apparently given up to the mere conviviality of ‘Kneiping’ or beer-drinking.
1874 J. M. Hart German Univ. ix. 139 In whatever other respects the German student may be irregular, he always kneips according to rule.
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