By “party”, I mean a physical social gathering of people for the purposes of having fun. It may be used in a sentence as “I am throwing a party!” or “Let’s party!”.
Basically what I am trying to say is the default “party”.
I’ve never been to any, and I have no idea how people spend their time on parties, so I am curious how you did.
I don’t know if it’s changed since, but when I was younger, the best parties were unplanned. If someone said they were having a party on Saturday night, guaranteed it would be forty people at a dull affair.
However, if fifteen people randomly ended up in one house with vast amounts of drink and drugs, the police would be called at some point and the local newspaper would finally have an interesting story