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SILLY SEASON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silly season mean?
• SILLY SEASON (noun)
The noun SILLY SEASON has 1 sense:
1. a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news
Familiarity information: SILLY SEASON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("silly season" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
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