meet cute

短语

发音

UK /ˈmiːt ˌkjuːt/
AU
US /ˈmit ˌkjuːt/

词形变化

meet cutes 复数 meets cute 三单 meeting cute 现在分词 met cute 过去式 met cute 过去分词

别名

meet-cute cute-meet

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A situation in a film, television series, etc., in which a potential romantic couple meet for the first time in a way that is considered adorable, amusing, or cute.

    非正式 语言学
  2. 2.

    Any such situation occurring in real life between a pair of people who are not yet acquainted, romantically or otherwise.

    非正式 引申义
v.
  1. 1.

    Of characters in a story or people in real life: to meet each other in an adorable, amusing, or cute way.

    非正式 不及物

词源

Accidentally coined by German-American film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), who had difficulty speaking English, to describe the encounter between the characters played by Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper in the 1938 film Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife.

来源：wiktionary