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The Britannica Dictionary time warp 1 ENTRIES FOUND:

• time warp (noun)

time warp noun plural time warps time warp noun plural time warps Britannica Dictionary definition of TIME WARP [count] : a feeling, state, or place in which time seems to stop, go backward, etc.

• Walking into the castle was like entering a time warp.
• She dresses like someone caught/stuck/trapped in a 1950s time warp. [=she dresses in styles from the 1950s]

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