first time

plural first times

1. euphemisticAn 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.

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   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.

   1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11

   If its submission is approved, it would not be the first time TfL has taken over services from a train operating company.

   2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 11

present singular third person first times · participle present first timing · participle past first timed · past first timed

1. transitivevideo gamesTo try for the first time.

   I'm first timing this game.

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