daytimesadv.
/ˈdeɪtʌɪmz/, U.S. /ˈdeɪˌtaɪmz/ colloquial (chiefly U.S.).
In the daytime; during the day.
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1847 O. S. Fowler Physiol., Animal & Mental iii. 212 Lectures and public meetings should be held daytimes instead of evenings.
1854 M. Cummins Lamplighter xvii Willie was very busy daytimes, but was always with them in the evening.
1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners viii. 187 Her bed, daytimes, was strewn with illustrated magazines.
1995 R. Price Promise of Rest (1996) 242 I'd push back my pitiful furniture and mop with Lysol every night... It wore me out, hard as I worked daytimes.
2007 M. Thapa Tilled Earth 29 Night-times he slept hard, and daytimes he wandered.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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