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good-time, a.
[Cf. good a. 3 c, 10 d.]
Of a person: recklessly pursuing pleasure; esp. in a good-time girl. Also good-timer, one of this character.
1928Publishers' Weekly 9 June 2393 Gerry Harris was ‘a good time girl’, who sought men only as playmates. 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxvi. 444 The boozers,..the business men, the Good-Timers. 1941O. Sitwell in Open Door 82 The plane was crowded. A few ‘good-timers’ were still there..loyal to their favourite beat: Paris for Whitsun. 1943John Bull 20 Nov. 6/2 Contribution to the controversy about war⁓time morals came from Capt. Cunningham Reid, who told..the pitiful story of Mary, the ‘good-time girl’. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair viii. 82 Bert deserved better out of life than a good-time wife. 1957Wodehouse Over Seventy xvii. 160 Once a combination of Santa Claus and Good-Time Charlie, Hollywood has become a Scrooge. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 18 July 414/1 This is..a most eloquent protest against the present-day values of..casual good-timers. 1959Listener 5 Mar. 428/2 The murder of a local good-time girl. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. B2/4 So much for the view, strongly fostered by the Minister of Finance, that convention⁓goers are good-time Charlies. |