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1attributive(of a person) having the pursuit of pleasure as one's chief aim.
‘a good-time girl’
‘a good-time party guy’
‘he's just a good-time Charlie’
‘However, there are certain ‘rules’ that exist for associations with the local good-time girls.’
‘Nikki (Miller, Law's real-life steady) is a gorgeous but unhinged good-time girl who never quite knows when the party's over.’
‘Then there was Elsie Tanner, the Street's good-time girl.’
‘With spiky hair and a wild dress sense, Sam is an outrageous good-time girl and is always out with her mates.’
‘In a trippy opening sequence we learn that Atkins is a good-time girl, all mascara and champagne and arguing violently with her squiffy actor boyfriend.’
‘Singer/dancer Olga San Juan shows up as sort of a good-time girl that, this being the forties, no one actually has a good time with.’
‘The good-time guys play a stomping blend of Mexican music and country-blues from south-western America.’
‘Her mother was a woman of ill-repute: an ex-playmate, Ford model and all round good-time girl with a string of groupie relationships to her name.’
‘They sound as if they've turned out to be fine people despite all the press stereotypes of them as good-time party girls.’
‘This week's show streaks into the cheekier end of the information TV spectrum by staging a contest between a gaggle of good-time girls getting ready for a night on the town and Ford's rally team.’
‘Cumbrian to the bone, they're good-time lads with a selfless ambition: to spread the fun.’
‘Another trip to a trendy London club found me in the company of two leggy good-time girls.’
‘There was an instant bond as one good-time girl met another.’
‘Dunst finds the hidden depths in her character and reasons to be sympathetic towards a woman who might initially seem little more than an empty-headed good-time girl.’
‘If you're here for a good time, then go out with the good-time girls.’
‘I honestly feel bad for writing this, because maybe, just maybe, Walker and his band of happy-go-lucky good-time pals are actually the nicest people in the world and I'm being a jerk.’
‘The boy's life changes forever when this tarty good-time girl replaces his mother in the family home and he decides to take matters into his own hands.’
‘In an age of automatons, he is a throwback to an era of good-time boys and daredevil racers.’
‘She's a good-time girl who enjoys her life and her man.’
‘Toronto's garage-rock good-time boys have already wrapped up their third album, Ode to Joy, which will hit stores in February.’
1.1(of popular music) intended purely to entertain.
‘good-time rock 'n' roll’
‘Used extensively as the wonky good-time background music to a thousand TV clips this summer it's undoubtedly effective and known to millions, but adds absolutely nothing to the sacrosanct original.’
‘How often do Phil Spector's epic grandeur, the Velvet Underground's jangly drive and the good-time groove of Northern Soul engage in a convincing ménage à trois on one record?’
‘There's nothing complex or sarcastic about American Hi-fi, from their utterly straightforward band name to the good-time rock sound of their Bob-Rock-produced, eponymous debut.’
‘This is unapologetic good-time rock 'n' roll done with tongue planted firmly in cheek (as well as some other areas).’
‘I saw them open for Sonic Youth in 1988 at San Francisco's Fillmore, and was so eager for a good-time first-LP-style thrashing that I tried painfully hard to overlook the big hair, the power ballads and the exceptionally mediocre songs.’
‘There were concessions to the modern age - though sampling The Who is hardly cutting-edge - but this was mainly good-time rock ‘n’ roll played by men who clearly enjoyed every minute, and who have earned the right to be up on stage.’
‘This Tremolo offshoot's good-time electronica sounds like a Nintendo system haunted by fairies and satyrs.’
‘This estrogenic NYC quartet (apologies to male drummer) takes good-time, punk-pop pep to hyper speed on album two.’
‘Psychobilly is just good-time music that uses traditional rockabilly and can get really crazy.’
‘Kazzer was a big deal before anybody even knew who he was - in the months preceding the release of his first CD, Pedal to the Metal, he was already on a Canada-wide tour to promote his brand of good-time rock & hip-hop.’
‘All share the same sense of quirky musical programming and good-time vibe, bringing together disparate styles of music.’
‘Solid Comfort's music ranges from 1940's blues, to down-home country, to ‘non-electric, good-time music.’’
‘There may less growling this time round, but Old Souls & Wolf Tickets still retains the previous record's good-time stew of jazz, blues and rock and roll.’
‘Call it ‘Frisco Jazz,’ call it ‘Dixieland’ or ‘Traditional Jazz,’ it matters not - it's simply good-time music!’
‘And future single ‘Leaving Home’ is a more uptempo version of the same good-time electronic music with soul.’
‘The songs on The Best of The Dubliners are mostly good-time songs about drinking and bawdy sex.’
‘The musical menu features French-born free jazz performer La Baronne, local singer-songwriters Katie Sevigny and Nicka and Toronto's Lily Frost, as well as Mabro's cabaret pop sextet and Snipper's good-time bluegrass act.’
‘Still, the band has battled with rock critics who won't take them seriously and with scenester city-dwellers who think a good-time, country-rock theme band is a little hokey.’