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SILLY SEASON

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Dictionary entry overview: What does silly season mean?

• SILLY SEASON (noun)
The noun SILLY SEASON has 1 sense:

1. a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news

Familiarity information: SILLY SEASON used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SILLY SEASON (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("silly season" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

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