dancetime

English

Alternative forms

dance-time

Etymology

From dance +‎ time.

Noun

dancetime (uncountable)

The time for dancing.
- 1944 August 19, “Frank Dailey's Terrace Room, Newark”, in Billboard, volume 56, number 34:
  However, there is no loss of dancing floor space since a sectioned, wooden covering is placed over the ice when dancetime rolls around and the patrons trip the light fantastic with no apparent discomfort.
- 1975, John Dos Passos, edited by Warren G. French, The Twenties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, page 132:
  The wind goes among them detaching sweat-smells from underclothes making muscles itch under overcoats tweaking legs with inklings of dancetime.
- 2006, James B. Reuter, Legacy: Selected Works & Writings of James Reuter, S.J., page 246:
  It's dancetime here in the Green Room, and time for you to rest a while.
- 2010, Betty White, Here We Go Again: My Life In Television, page 67:
  Al was not only leaving the show, he was leaving the station altogether and moving to KABC to do a dancetime show for young people.
A lively tempo suitable for dancing.
- 1951, Radio Daily-television Daily - Volume 56, Issues 1-62, page 61:
  The dancetime stylings of the leader-pianist typify for all ages the carefree mood of a night "on the town".
- 2006, Frank Krutnik, In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity, page 174:
  In opposition to Rip and Johnny, then, Martinelli and Krause represent a corrupt 'homosexual' bonding: the sadistic sexual circuit which operates between them is italicised during Krause's beating of Rip, which he performs 'to dancetime', with the radio blaring.
- 2013, Ian Whitcomb, After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock, page 1901:
  Ragtime and dancetime took their toll of the veteran writers.