Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
dinnertime .
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Examples
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Both chambers came to order shortly after 3 p.m., immediately broke for several hours, then started passing budget bills around dinner-time.
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Till dinner-time, she corrected, remembering the arrangement on the Ghost.
Chapter 27 2010
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Both chambers came to order shortly after 3 p.m., immediately broke for several hours, then started passing budget bills around dinner-time.
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And this is what led me to that dinner-time revelation and my decision to shop.
Unpleated Coe Douglas 2011
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Then she speaks for approximately 20 minutes (this is key for a dinner-time speech, when the audience is tired), making no more than three key points.
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Then she speaks for approximately 20 minutes (this is key for a dinner-time speech, when the audience is tired), making no more than three key points.
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A truly great school, I have come to realize, schedules the first dorm floor meeting for dinner-time on move-in day.
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It's almost dinner-time, if I have one more 8-ounce portion of fish I will grow fins and gills, and a cheese-oozing pepperoni, sausage & mushroom pizza on my doorstep is just a brief phone-call away; really, I'll cut out half my carbs tomorrow I promise.
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Into this valley of dinner-time discord has driven a specially-trained squadron of humor police, The Odd Squad, which cruises the roads leading to beachfront houses beginning around cocktail hour and ending their shift just as grandparents are nodding off after “Wheel of Fortune”.
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But the intergenerational composition of many vacation rentals can lead to dinner-time strife, as jokes that win laughs among the elderly fall flat on teen ears, and the edgy, satirical style of humor favored by adolescents is perceived by many senior citizens as disrespectful or “flip”.
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