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field day definition

field day

  1. a day devoted to military exercises and display
  2. a day of athletic events and contests
  3. ☆ a day spent in outdoor scientific study
  4. an occasion of enjoyably exciting events, extraordinary opportunity, or highly successful activity the press had a field day with the senator's confession

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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