Meet-cute Definition

mētkyo͝ot
noun
A plot contrivance by which two protagonists in a romantic comedy first meet under unexpected and often comically adverse circumstances.
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Noun

Singular:
meet-cute
Plural:
meet-cutes

Origin of Meet-cute

  • Accidentally coined by director Ernst Lubitsch, who had difficulty speaking English, to describe the encounter between the characters played by Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife.

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