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teatime

[ UK /tˈiːta‍ɪm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes
    an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea

How To Use teatime In A Sentence

  • They looked as if they were in a film, and indeed many of them were on the teatime newsreels.
  • They met in the post office at teatime one afternoon as they were picking up their copies of the newspaper, which arrives in the village too late for morning collection.
  • If it's not interrupting teatime viewing of The Simpsons then it's popping up at the most unearthly of hours.
  • This is causing chaos on the road, especially in the mornings and at teatime, and creating a huge traffic build-up.
  • Lighter cakes, made with less fruit, to be eaten at teatime or for snacks, include Genoa cake.
  • It's not as important as the flavor, but part of what I'm doing at teatime is taking time out from whatever else I was doing, and fiddling with my tea or hot chocolate helps with that. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • And the actors all played up to it, like foie gras geese at teatime. Times, Sunday Times
  • What's the point of hosting the biggest teatime game show around if you can't get the odd holiday out of it? Times, Sunday Times
  • By teatime on Tuesday the phone was working again but I still can't get broadband.
  • Even as a child, I thought it a lateish hour to be serving an essentially teatime dish.
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