open season
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.18 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A period of time during the calendar year when authorities within a jurisdiction permit the unrestricted hunting of one or more kinds of animal wildlife.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A situation in which someone is endangered, blamed, harassed, or opposed in a sustained manner by a number of others; a situation in which something is endangered or otherwise opposed.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""But there weren't many crabs in those days," the old man wandered on. "They were fished out, and they were great delicacies. The open season was only a month long, too.""
- "In the country of the Clantons there was always an open season on any one of his name."
- "She's fair game, Joe. It's always open season on princesses."
- "The court thus overruled all the states' protective laws, except against outright fraud, and declared open season on any products not protected by patents."
- "The paparazzi and gossip hounds have declared open season on celebrities."
- "On aviation, the Chancellor seemed to suggest it was open season for expanding airports across the UK, irrespective of the fact that flying is a major source of CO² in the atmosphere."