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SHOW TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does show time mean? 

SHOW TIME (noun)
  The noun SHOW TIME has 1 sense:

1. the point in time at which an entertainment (a movie or television show etc.) is scheduled to beginplay

  Familiarity information: SHOW TIME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHOW TIME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The point in time at which an entertainment (a movie or television show etc.) is scheduled to begin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("show time" is a kind of...):

point; point in time (an instant of time)


 Context examples 


After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it’s show time for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations is officially underway.

(A “Heart” from Pluto as Flyby Begins, NASA)



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