blind date

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blind date (plural blind dates)

1. (idiomatic) A date (romantic meeting) between two people who have never met before.
   • 1978, “Blind Date”, in A Tonic for the Troops, performed by The Boomtown Rats:

     A blind date is a blinkered meeting / A rendez-vous with some person unknown / A secret tryst, a shady dealing / A gambler's chance when love's dice are thrown

   • 1922, The Tiller and Toiler, The Vocabulary of Jazzdom‎^[1]:

     Blind date—When parties do not Know each other.

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