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me time

or me-time

[ mee tahym ]

noun

Informal.
  1. time spent focusing on oneself and only doing things one wants to do:

    I’ll try to find some me time when the kids go back to school.



me-time

noun

  1. the time a person has to himself or herself, in which to do something for his or her own enjoyment
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of me time1

First recorded in 1980–85
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Example Sentences

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She was vacationing with a good friend at a beach resort in Mexico about 13 years ago, enjoying some long-deferred “me time,” when a man on a bike approached her.

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This explains why antibiotics failed me time and time again: They selected for the resistant and hypervirulent strains of C. acnes.

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“There’s so many things to do right now. People are overwhelmed with what to do with all this information. Everyone is so thankful, but it’s hard to even sit and read stuff. Like what do you do next? So I wanted to just bring people out of their reality and kind of just give them that ‘me time.’”

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“We couldn’t do it without our offensive line giving Brady time to throw or me time to run patterns.”

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And when I didn’t reply he sent an alarm clock emoji and told me: 'Time’s running out.'

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