wareouse.html - noun (Music) ( Youth Culture) Mostly in warehouse party: a large, illicitly organized party (usually held in a warehouse or some other spacious building) at which the main entertainment is dancing to popular (especially house) music; similar to an acid house party. Etymology: Formed by compounding: the parties involve such large numbers of people that a building the size of a warehouse is needed to accommodate them. A connection is sometimes made with the Warehouse club in Chicago (see house ), but parties were already being held in warehouses before the fashion for house music started. History and Usage: Large parties were held in warehouses in the UK from the early eighties onwards; as the craze for house music spread from Chicago across the US and the Atlantic to the UK in the mid eighties, they became associated with this youth cult in particular. Because of the large concentrations of people at the parties and police suspicions that they were used for drug-pushing, the arrangers tended to keep the details secret until the last moment: see acid house. Although usually in the combination warehouse party, warehouse is sometimes used on its own to refer to the culture of house music, parties, and dancing as a whole. Ten people...were arrested during a drugs raid on a derelict school building in Cowley, Oxford, yesterday after leaflets advertising an 'Acid Warehouse Party' were seized. Daily Telegraph 10 Oct. 1988, p.
3 There are also secretive murmurings of a possible jazz warehouse party. The Face Jan. 1989, p.
38 The only way the warehouse scene can survive is to get small again like it was a few years back and offer something special. Q Nov. 1989, p . 16, but parties were already being held in warehouses before the fashion for house music started. History and Usage : Large parties were held in warehouses in the UK from the early eighties onwards; as the craze for house music spread from Chicago across the US and the Atlantic to the UK in the mid eighties, they became associated with this youth cult in particular. Because of the large concentrations of people at the parties and police suspicions that they were used for drug-pushing, the arrangers tended to keep the details secret until the last moment : see acid+house . Although usually in the combination warehouse party, warehouse is sometimes used on its own to refer to the culture of house music, parties, and dancing as a whole. Ten people...were arrested during a drugs raid on a derelict school building in Cowley, Oxford, yesterday after leaflets advertising an 'Acid Warehouse Party' were seized. Daily Telegraph 10 Oct. 1988, p.
3 There are also secretive murmurings of a possible jazz warehouse party. The Face Jan. 1989, p.
38 The only way the warehouse scene can survive is to get small again like it was a few years back and offer something special. Q Nov. 1989, p. 16

wareouse.html - n.
1 (esp. in comb.) things of the same kind, esp. ceramics, made usu. for sale (chinaware; hardware).
2 (usu. in pl.) a articles for sale (displayed his wares). b a person's skills, talents, etc.
3 ceramics etc. of a specified material, factory, or kind (Wedgwood ware; Delft ware). [OE waru f. Gmc, perh. orig. = 'object of care', rel. to WARE(3)]

wareouse.html - v.tr.
(also 'ware) (esp. in hunting) look out for; avoid (usu. in imper.: ware hounds!). [OE warian f. Gmc (as WARE(3)), & f. ONF warer]

wareouse.html - predic.adj. poet. aware. [OE wór f. Gmc: cf. WARD]

wareouse.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a building in which esp. retail goods are stored; a repository.
2 esp. Brit. a wholesale or large retail store.

--v.

tr. also store (esp. furniture or bonded goods) temporarily in a repository.

warehouseman n. (pl. -men).

wareouse.html - See: COLD WAR, TUG OF WAR.