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halloweekend

halloweekend is the alternative form of Halloweekend.

Proper noun capitalized: Halloweekend

Halloweekend (countable and uncountable, plural Halloweekends)

  1. (informal) The weekend where Halloween falls on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
    • Even if you've missed the Halloweekend memo, putting together a last-minute costume can still be easy and cheap.2011 October 27, Nissa Ostroff, “Last minute costume ideas”, in The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, page 6
    • As it nears “Halloweekend,” we tend to find ourselves scrambling for cheap, last-minute Halloween costumes and if you're currently engaged in some type of partnership, you may find yourself dressing for two.2015 October 29, Nebraska Lucas, “WU-approved costumes for budgeting couples”, in Willamette Collegian, page 4
  2. (informal) A weekend before or after Halloween, when Halloween festivities are celebrated, if the holiday does not fall on a weekend.

Forms of halloweekend

pluralHalloweekends
alternative formhalloweekend
alternative formHallowe'ekend

Origin of halloweekend

Blend of Halloween + weekend.

Questions about halloweekend

What does halloweekend mean?
Halloweekend means the weekend where Halloween falls on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
What is halloweekend the alternative form of?
Halloweekend is the alternative form of Halloweekend.
What part of speech is halloweekend?
Halloweekend is a proper noun.

Words near halloweekend in the dictionary

  1. Hallowe'eny
  2. hallowed
  3. hallowedly
  4. hallowedness
  5. Halloweek
  6. halloweekend
  7. Halloweekends
  8. Halloweeks
  9. Halloween
  10. Halloween crab
  11. Halloween crabs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: halloweekend (page history and authors); Halloweekend (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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