Irish meaning vs. American meaning?

Ah you needn't worry. The only people who use the phrase "Meeting" to apply to kissing are spotty teenagers. Most of use it in the normal context.

edit: You can use the word meeting, we use the word meeting in exactly the same way as Americans, you have half a dozen Irish people here telling you you can

meeting is used as a slang word by teenagers to mean kissing, it is used by adults to mean just that - an assembly of colleagues to discuss issues

I go to meetings all the time, I meet with my manager, we also have regular team meetings, the other day I had a meeting with senior management & a data collection colleague - if you would like to think I'm the office bicycle & I'm slowly working my way through my colleagues (in groups & as individuals) please feel free to do so

The Irish use meeting exactly the same way as Americans. If you try to use another word or spend your time avoiding the use of the meeting because you persist in believing it means something else in Ireland then try explaining to your Irish colleagues why you're not using the word meeting & you're going to wind up looking like an idiot

If we gave you a list of all the words which have a double meaning because they're also used as slang you'd never open your mouth, again it's about context

To repeat, Irish people are telling you to use the word meeting, it's okay, you're getting all het about nothing

original answer: I've never heard that expression 'meet' used to mean making out - shift, ride, snog & variations but never 'meeting', it may be a word that's made it's way into Irish slang

Meeting means exactly the same in Ireland as it does in the US, several people coming together to discuss things.

You also need to consider the context that a word is used in - you wouldn't say to your colleague 'do you want to meet up?' in the same way you would say it to a boy/girlfriend or someone you fancy, meeting up would mean just that setting an appointment to do something

I've only heard "meeting" used in the sense of meeting up with friends for lunch, or a business meeting. Never in the sense of kissing. I'm not saying that it's never used in that way in other areas of the country or perhaps in other age groups, just that I've never heard of it.

As far as I'm concerned, "I'll meet you later" means just that. Nothing further is implied.

yes meeting means to "make out" in parts of ireland, i live in limerick for instance and we use it all the time but we use it with the same meaning as americans do too. it all depends on the context, its very rare someone would mistake saying you met someone for saying you kissed them. its used more by the younger generations aswell

I never heard that expression 'meeting'& I am Irish so am guessing it must be teenagers who use this expression so I wouldn't worry if I was you. The term we used to use was 'shifting' as in 'to make out, kiss, snog etc etc'....... have a great time..

Its just slang. We use the term meeting for an actual meeting (business meeting etc) as well.

"Meet" is just a slang term use by kids and teens as in "yeah i met that fella", meet and meeting have the same meaning here as in America.

Other terms are shift, feek (which sounds horrible) and snog.

If you say 'im going to a meeting' no one will think you mean your going to kiss someone.

If you say 'I met him' some people think kiss others think 'hello,hi,nice to meet you'

We also say score for kiss

don't worry to much about it!

An American meeting is a group of people getting together to discuss things. Business meetings, church meetings, committee meetings, etc. I much prefer the Irish version except that very few people I have meetings with are anyone I would want to kiss.

yeah its used but it totally depends on the context. "i am meeting my mother at the pub tonight"=normal meaning cos we use the normal meaning too. boy asks u "will u meet my friend" pointing to a nervous boy in the corner=will u snog him?