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-cutesOrigin 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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