dancetime
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- The time for dancing.
- 1944 August 19, “Frank Dailey's Terrace Room, Newark”, in Billboard, volume 56, number 34:
- 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.
- 1975, John Dos Passos, edited by Warren G. French, The Twenties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, page 132:
- The wind goes among them detaching sweat-smells from underclothes making muscles itch under overcoats tweaking legs with inklings of dancetime.
- 2006, James B. Reuter, Legacy: Selected Works & Writings of James Reuter, S.J., page 246:
- It's dancetime here in the Green Room, and time for you to rest a while.
- 2010, Betty White, Here We Go Again: My Life In Television, page 67:
- 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.
- A lively tempo suitable for dancing.
- 1951, Radio Daily-television Daily - Volume 56, Issues 1-62, page 61:
- The dancetime stylings of the leader-pianist typify for all ages the carefree mood of a night "on the town".
- 2006, Frank Krutnik, In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity, page 174:
- 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.
- 2013, Ian Whitcomb, After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock, page 1901:
- Ragtime and dancetime took their toll of the veteran writers.