meaning of prime time
1. prime time From TV programming Normal high-usage hours on a time-sharing system; the day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for night mode hacking. The rise of the personal workstation has rendered this term, along with time-sharing itself, almost obsolete. The hackish tendency to late-night hacking runs has changed not a bit. [Jargon File]
2. the hours between 7 and 11 p. m. when the largest tv audience is available
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