pig night

pig night
 n.β€” Β«One of its disgusted members told me of its annual practice called β€œpig night” when pledges were sent out to find β€œugly townie girls” to be invited to a big Yale partyβ€”at midnight they were told, now illegally liquored up, that they had been invited as the worst pigs that could be found, then dismissed into the New Haven winter.Β» β€”β€œFrat Boys Torture, Too” by Ed Kent Blogger News Network Oct. 4, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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