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time warp
noun
- a hypothetical eccentricity in the progress of time that would allow movement back and forth between eras or that would permit the passage of time to be suspended.
time warp
noun
- any distortion of space-time
- a hypothetical distortion of time in which people and events from one age can be imagined to exist in another age
- informal.an illusion in which time appears to stand still
he is living in a time warp
Word History and Origins
Origin of time warp1
Idioms and Phrases
A stoppage in the passage of time; also, a distortion of time whereby an event or person could hypothetically move from one era to another. For example, Nothing in their lives has changed since the sixties; they're in a time warp , or Having a seventy-year-old actress portray a teenager—that was some time warp! This term originated in science fiction, where it signifies “a supernatural movement from one era to another,” and came to be used more loosely. [c. 1950]Example Sentences
WHERE TO EAT: For lunch, enter the time warp that is Crown Candy Kitchen (don't pass on the sundaes).
No throwback eyeglasses or filters on my photos to give the impression of a time warp.
As rumors swirl about William and Kate, Andrew Morton says the whole thing feels like a time warp.
Mryna felt a twist of vertigo as the shuttle shifted from conventional speed into a time warp.
Time warp: The hole in time the time machine goes through to reach another time.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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