vampire time

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1. 1

   A schedule in which a person sleeps during the day and spends much of the night awake.

   • Undergraduates say they live on vampire time, sleeping in class, active after dark.
   • It's also good for other people who work on vampire time like college students, artists, musicians, dancers, and others.
2. 2

   Night

   Night; the time when there is no sunlight.

   • 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.
   • It's summer vampire time, 3:47 a.m., and I'm dancing, listening to "Ragas on Slide Guitar" on the CD player.
3. 3

   A woman's menstrual period.

   • But what would he have thought about the female character in a novel I recently read who, noting that she was in her menstual period, called it 'vampire time'?
   • Thus the curse of Eve and the monthly blues give way to sanitary protection and menstual health. On the street things are a bit different, of course. There it's vampire time.
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      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vampire, time.

      • In vampire time Aleya had not really been around that long, but the sound, the scent, the routines that were uniquely her were missing. He missed her.
      • Ah, she was young in real time or vampire time?

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