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CP Time

CP Time noun: synonym of Colored People's Time.

Noun (1)

CP Time (uncountable)

  1. (US, dated, derogatory, slang, sometimes reclaimed) Synonym of Colored People's Time.
    • Mrs. Clinton: Thanks for the endorsement, Bill. Took you long enough.
      De Blasio: Sorry, Hillary. I was running on CP time...
      Mrs. Clinton: Cautious politician time. I’ve been there.
      ...if your keyboard is still dry, CNN has the explanation: “ ‘CP Time’—also known as ‘colored people’s time’—is a...2016 April 12, James Taranto, “Best of the Web: Hillary Aims at Hilarity”, in Wall Street Journal

Noun (2) capitalized: CP time

CP time (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of CP Time.
    • “Talking about CP time is as natural to Black folk as worshipping Angela Bassett.”2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 202

Synonyms of CP Time

Forms of CP Time

alternative formCP time

Origin of CP Time

A partial abbreviation of Colored People's Time, based on a treatment of it as a time zone.

Questions about CP Time

What does CP Time mean?
CP Time means synonym of Colored People's Time.
What part of speech is CP Time?
CP Time is a noun.

Words near CP Time in the dictionary

  1. CO₂ offset
  2. CO₂ offsets
  3. CO₂-eq.
  4. CO₂e
  5. cp
  6. CP Time
  7. CP-1252
  8. cp.
  9. CP/M
  10. CP/Mer
  11. CP/Mers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CP Time (page history and authors); CP time (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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