first time

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɜːst taɪm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɜɹst taɪm/

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first time (plural first times)

1. (euphemistic) An individual's first instance of sexual intercourse.

   Do you remember your first time?

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first,‎ time.

   I'm flying to Castile next week. It'll be the first time I’ve been there.

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

     Just a minute or so before we left — it must have been about 1:30 p.m. — Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff came into the room and addressed me as "Mr. President." This was the first time anyone had called me that and I must have looked startled; I certainly felt strange.

first time (third-person singular simple present first times, present participle first timing, simple past and past participle first timed)

1. (chiefly video games, transitive) To try for the first time.

   I'm first timing this game.

   Looking forward to first time this champion in my ranked games.

• first-time