A time of enjoyment; sometimes of revelry.
1843. At the first toot of the tin horn, we assembled in expectation of a “good time.”—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ ii. 150.
1849. Time. A spree, a row, an occasion, who’s afraid.—Yale Lit. Mag., xiv. 144 (Jan.).
1856. Are students wholly given up to flirting and having what they call good times? I never hear them talk of anything else.—Id., xxii. 78 (Nov.).
1864. Your children never had what children call “a good time.” Always kept at work when possible, and always restrained in every exhibition of the spirit of play, home became an irksome place to them, and childhood a dreary period.—J. G. Holland, ‘Letters to the Joneses,’ p. 39.
1864. If you could be permitted to have what you call “a good time.”—Id., p. 258.
1874. Meg found it a relief to know that John was having a good time.—Louisa M. Alcott, ‘Little Wives,’ chap. xv.
