U of T time
U of T time proper noun: a system in which an event (usually a class) begins ten minutes after the hour.
Proper noun
U of T time
- A system in which an event (usually a class) begins ten minutes after the hour.
- When the chairperson glanced at his watch, MacPhee joked, "Am I late? I thought it was nine o'clock on U of T time." Classes started at ten past the hour so MacPhee thought he was being witty.2014, M.P. Fedunkiw, A Degree of Futility, Victoria, BC: Friesen Press, →ISBN, page 7
- Our institution still operated under the colloquial “U of T” time, where events start late on purpose, to hold over from prepandemic days when the expanse of the school’s urban campus landscape rendered a walk from one class to another into a commute.2023, Arun Jacob, Christine H. Tran, “How We Learned to Stop SWATing and Love the (Zoom-)Bomb: A (De)predatory History of Disrupting the Live Stream”, in Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L....
Forms of U of T time
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Origin of U of T time
From U of T (“University of Toronto”) + time.
Questions about U of T time
- What does U of T time mean?
- U of T time means a system in which an event (usually a class) begins ten minutes after the hour.
- What part of speech is U of T time?
- U of T time is a proper noun.
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