Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun silly_season

1 sense of silly season

Sense 1
silly season -- (a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news)
       => time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")