Meaning of vampire time | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A schedule in which a person sleeps during the day and spends much of the night awake.
   informal
2. Night; the time when there is no sunlight.
   informal
3. A woman's menstrual period.
   euphemistic, slang
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vampire, time.
5. Time, when considered relative to a vampire's immortal lifespan.
6. The manner in which a vampire perceives or measures time.
7. The time at which one encounters a vampire.

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“Such elaborate patterning is made possible by vampire time and enables both stasis – the male vampire's desire for his true love remains unchanged over the years – and change – the object of that love may actually change as it is switched from one female to another.”

“He was younger than Nikolai by a few hundred years which, in vampire time, was not that much.”

“This disparity is dependent on geographic location and point in the calendar year, but generally most vampires switch to vampire time no matter where they reside.”

“Vampire time is different from normal time. Things happen very quickly here.”

“Vampire time is defined by repetition as well as circularity.”

“Even before this verbal utterance, the clock strikes one, the lonely caretaker looks up, the bats fly through the trees, a shrouded figure glides across the rooftops, and a scream is heard. These events tell the audience, "Boy it sure is vampire time tonight ! "”

“Sooner or later, it would be vampire time for her.”

“Finally it was the vampires turn to attack. […] It was vampire time now.”

“The problem is that this was supposed to be my vampire time, not Cousin Carlo time. I don't suppose you know of any Italian vampires?”

“Vampire time! Know thy enemy. Out with the cross, in with the steaks, and all that stuff.”

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