Verb: To drink alcoholic beverages prior to a social engagement to make it more enjoyable.

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n. To drink before going to a party. This most often happens because they party where you are going to will be carding and you are under or because you want to drink something hard to start your night off. Often pregaming happens at the house and involves taking shots.
v. The act of partaking in a pregame.

Invented by college students; it means drinking before going out to party, mostly to prevent oneself from spending too much on alcohol while out.

Drinking before one officially goes out to to either a club or other social gathering

Activity that is DRINKING BEFORE DRINKING. Usually to drink before going out to a club or party. Sometimes the reason for pre-gaming is to get a buzz started before arriving at the destination, and sometimes to spend less money trying to obtain a drunken state at the bar or club. You don't even have to change locations to consider it a pre-game. It could be getting a couple drinks in before your friends arrive at your house to drink. But it always is drinking before an event that includes drinking. You can pre-game by yourself or gathering with friends. But the gathering must change in order to count the initial gathering as a pre-game. Such as the group of you going out after the pre-game. It is not pre-gaming if you get together to drink and do not change something such as A)location or B)several members of the group. That is just extra drinking time.

When you get drunk or buzzed before a party, so that your already having fun before you arrive