spooky season

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Noun

spooky season (countable and uncountable, plural spooky seasons)

1. (slang) The days leading up to, and including, Halloween.
   • 2017, The Blazer, page 4:

     October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. I’m not sure why it’s October, maybe because it’s spooky season and the scariest thing that could happen to you would be cancer.

   • 2019, Alabamian, page 3:

     Once October hits, we're ready for spooky season and while we loved telling scary stories in the dark when we were kids, not everyone loves horror. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, but I hate scary movies.

   • 2021, North Coast Journal, page 26:

     But it’s heartening that we can have something like There’s Someone, a just OK movie with a diverse cast — a somewhat goofy slasher we'll all probably forget when spooky season ends.

Related terms

• Christmas season
• holiday season
• Christmastime
• Eastertime