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spooky season

spooky season noun: the days leading up to, and including, Halloween.

spooky season: the days leading up to, and including, Halloween
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Noun

spooky season (countable and uncountable, plural spooky seasons)

  1. (slang) The days leading up to, and including, Halloween.
    • October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. I’m not sure why it’s October, maybe because it’s spooky season and the scariest thing that could happen to you would be cancer.2017, The Blazer, page 4
    • Once October hits, we're ready for spooky season and while we loved telling scary stories in the dark when we were kids, not everyone loves horror. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, but I hate scary movies.2019, Alabamian, page 3

Forms of spooky season

pluralspooky seasons

Questions about spooky season

What does spooky season mean?
Spooky season means the days leading up to, and including, Halloween.
What part of speech is spooky season?
Spooky season is a noun.
What is the plural of spooky season?
The plural of spooky season is spooky seasons.

Words near spooky season in the dictionary

  1. Spooktobers
  2. spooky
  3. spooky action at a distance
  4. spooky PAC
  5. spooky PACs
  6. spooky season
  7. spooky seasons
  8. spooky-ass
  9. spool
  10. spool brush
  11. spool brushes

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