Christmas Adam

proper noun

The day before Christmas Eve.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. humorousThe day before Christmas Eve.

    "[…] to the games on Christmas Adam." Layla's eyes popped open, and she counted in her head. "That's in two days. I haven't done the shopping for the games that are already on my list. Gracious." She sliced the turkey breast[…]

    2023 August 22, Regina Walker, Miracle Inn, Regina Walker
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    Bob ended up at the discount store on “Christmas Adam,” buying just with creative recipes! about every Nerf gun the store had, plus a shopping cart full of other fun surprises. The evening before, the children had participated in a Christmas music pageant […]

    2012 March 6, Michelle Duggar, Jim Bob Duggar, A Love That Multiplies: An Up-Close View of How They Make It Work, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 53

    "Happy Christmas Adam," James greeted him. [...] It was a family custom to call the twenty-third of December Christmas Adam, because it was the day before Christmas Eve, and Adam had come before Eve. Levi nodded to James now, glancing around again. “Happy Christmas Adam to you, too. Is everything all right?” James leaned on the counter[…]

    2017 December 1, Regina Scott, His Frontier Christmas Family, Harlequin, →ISBN

Origin

Reinterpreting Eve (“evening or day before (another day)”) as the name Eve, and referencing how, in Genesis, Adam came before Eve.

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APA

Christmas Adam. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Christmas%20Adam

MLA

“Christmas Adam.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Christmas%20Adam. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Christmas Adam,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Christmas%20Adam.

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