game time
3
2.7
- noun
- Informal
:
hora del juego
- Many of the players came to the arena as late as possible before game time, as they felt a lack of control over the external stimuli that interfered with their mental preparation.
- Game time: 7 p.m.
- hours before game time
- Just before game time
But at the bottom, the last item on every agenda was game time.
- But at the bottom, the last item on every agenda was game time.
- And the USDA shows up and it is essentially game time.
- And then, yeah, you know, I do my game time ritual stuff leading up to the game when we're on the road.
- Is this something that that can manifest in, in, in when it's game time, it under pressure?
- So This Is Us game time.
Examples
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Everyone was on edge waiting for the referee's whistle to signal game time.
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Both teams pull up to the stadium 2 hours before game time, play the game, and go home.
Blog text (31) -
Finally, it was game time.
Fiction book (2001) -
Meet me at the Garden on Seventh, 15 minutes before game time.
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The team has yet to confirm his status, however, and will likely evaluate him just before game time to see if he will be available.
Blog text (17) -
But when it comes to game time, he's intense.
Blog text (32) -
It's game time.
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Just a few minutes of game time later, Pugh was back in the Redskins' secondary.
Blog text (20) -
The clouds skittered away just before game time, hallelujah, and stayed away most of the night.
Blog text (15) -
The fans arrived early to cheer for their team before game time.
Synonyms
9
1.1
The time when a movie or play starts
How Immediate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the time associated with a game' is directly compositional from 'game' (a sports contest) and 'time' (measured duration), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it. This noun–noun combination follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern for indicating a domain-specific time, making it immediately understandable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Game time comes from sports. When a whistle blows or an announcer shouts that the match is starting, players know to begin, so the phrase now means 'the moment when action or an important event begins'.