tea-time

Noun

teatime (countable and uncountable, plural teatimes)

1. (UK) The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).
   • In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually...1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
2. (broadly, figuratively, slang) A social gathering or conversation centered on sharing gossip, rumors, or other personal news.
   • It's me, hi
     I'm the problem, it's me
     At teatime, everybody agrees
     I'll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror
     It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero2022, Taylor Swift, “Anti-Hero”