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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The time at which an entertainment, such as the showing of a movie, is scheduled to start.
  • noun Slang The time at which an activity is to begin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The time at which a pre-scheduled entertainment-related event (a show) is set to begin.
  • interjection A declaration that something is about to happen, particularly that the person speaking is about to act.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the time at which something is supposed to begin

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