vampire time
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A schedule in which a person sleeps during the day and spends much of the night awake.
Informal
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vampire, time.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vampire, time.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vampire, time.
Example Sentences
- "Undergraduates say they live on vampire time, sleeping in class, active after dark."
- "That baby face that used to be such a drag when you wanted to pass for older or sophisticated comes in handy, all that subcutaneous fat staves off wrinkles, all that vampire time you put in as a decadent punk rock chick who rose when the sun set paid off ― your liver may be shot but there's no worry over sun damage, anyway."
- "It's also good for other people who work on vampire time like college students, artists, musicians, dancers, and others."
- "Or as Ellen Samuels puts it, perhaps more apropos of Caulder: "Crip time is vampire time. It's the time of late nights and unconscious days, of life schedules lived out of sync with the waking, quotidian world."
- "In the night, in the smoky smoky night: vampire time. Rebop syncopate do the dirty bop, request "Sixty-Minute Man," hear the Shammies, sing the song."
- "The stars were twinkling on, and the moon rising. Vampire time, the beginning of the night."