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dancetime en · NOUN

Etymology

From dance + time.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The time for dancing.
   • It's dancetime here in the Green Room, and time for you to rest a while. 2006, James B. Reuter, Legacy: Selected Works & Writings of James Reuter, S.J., page 246:
   • The wind goes among them detaching sweat-smells from underclothes making muscles itch under overcoats tweaking legs with inklings of dancetime. 1975, John Dos Passos, edited by Warren G. French, The Twenties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, page 132:
   • Al was not only leaving the show, he was leaving the station altogether and moving to KABC to do a dancetime show for young people. 2010, Betty White, Here We Go Again: My Life In Television, page 67:
   • However, there is no loss of dancing floor space since a sectioned, wooden covering is placed over the ice when dancetime rolls around and the patrons trip the light fantastic with no apparent discomfort. 1944 August 19, “Frank Dailey's Terrace Room, Newark”, in Billboard, volume 56, number 34:
2. (uncountable) A lively tempo suitable for dancing.
   • In opposition to Rip and Johnny, then, Martinelli and Krause represent a corrupt 'homosexual' bonding: the sadistic sexual circuit which operates between them is italicised during Krause's beating of Rip, which he performs 'to dancetime', with the radio blaring. 2006, Frank Krutnik, In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity, page 174:
   • The dancetime stylings of the leader-pianist typify for all ages the carefree mood of a night "on the town". 1951, Radio Daily-television Daily - Volume 56, Issues 1-62, page 61:
   • Ragtime and dancetime took their toll of the veteran writers. 2013, Ian Whitcomb, After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock, page 1901:

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