Afters vs Desserts - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between afters and desserts

is that afters is while desserts is .

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(British, informal) dessert

What are we having for afters , Mum? I really want ice cream...

(informal) The festivities held after a wedding meal.

To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters .

(British, Irish, informal, sport) fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped

*2010 David Lewis South Africa v England - as it happened: Proteas rip into top order as tourists flounder Daily Mail (16 January 2010):

*:42-2: From the other end Strauss has a bit of afters with Morne Morkel after yet another bouncer raps him on the gloves.

*2012 Nine-man Harps crushed in Wexford Donegal News (12 May 2012):

*:Clarke was dismissed in the sixty-seventh minute ... for overly enthusiastic afters with one of the Wexford players.