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first time

UK/fɜːst taɪm//fɜɹst taɪm/

first time noun: an individual's first instance of sexual intercourse.

Noun

first time (plural first times)

  1. (euphemistic) An individual's first instance of sexual intercourse.
    • Do you remember your first time?
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, time.
    • I'm flying to Castile next week. It'll be the first time I’ve been there.
    • Just a minute or so before we left — it must have been about 1:30 p.m. — Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff came into the room and addressed me as "Mr. President." This was the first time anyone had called me that and I must have looked startled; I certainly felt strange.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11

Verb

first time (third-person singular simple present first times, present participle first timing, simple past and past participle first timed)

  1. (transitive) To try for the first time.
    • I'm first timing this game.
    • Looking forward to first time this champion in my ranked games.

Forms of first time

Noun
pluralfirst times
Verb
third-person singular presentfirst times
present participlefirst timing
past participlefirst timed
pastfirst timed

Questions about first time

What does first time mean?
First time means an individual's first instance of sexual intercourse.
What part of speech is first time?
First time can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce first time?
First time is pronounced /fɜːst taɪm/ (UK).
What is the plural of first time?
The plural of first time is first times.

Words near first time in the dictionary

  1. first teams
  2. first thing
  3. first thing's first
  4. first things
  5. first things first
  6. first time
  7. first timed
  8. first times
  9. first timing
  10. first touch
  11. first touches

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