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Civic Holiday

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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ExampleMeaning
Yeah actually, they're- I think they're coming up to their thirty-first or thirty-second year of the annual lob-ball. So that's been an annual thing and it's always Civic-Holiday-Weekend. So it used to be a- a huge ah weekend thing.
A public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday of August.
... our short-stop and him and Mandy and Sam and Bob, are my sister-in-law and two nephews, would all come up and they would camp out for, for the whole weekend, and stay- they'd actually come up Thursday and make a big long-weekend out of it for Civic-Holiday weekend. So ah, that was always a lot of fun. Always had a beer-tent set up down there and-stuff-like-that so, lotta- lotta fun.
A public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday of August.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Yeah. Um then this year, there's the Legion-bingo. And my friends talking about the Civic-holiday thing. Interviewer: Civic-holiday? Speaker: Yeah, there's a barbeque or-something they do on civ-- on the Civic-holiday. I believe it's at Castle-Home. Ah, he's been doing that now for- well this'll be his third year.
A public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday of August.
Speaker: I had sixteen plus the eight from the- from the ride. Then I have- Interviewer: The five I'm giving you. Speaker: Eight and a half plus the five I'm getting from you. Interviewer: Yeah, you'll be at forty won't you? Speaker: Yeah. Especially with the Civic-holiday thing. I should be over. Interviewer: Yeah, you should go for more though.
A public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday of August.
ExampleMeaning
And then he said "No," he said "Can you start Monday?" I said "Yes." (laughs) He said "I want you to come in Monday." And that was the Civic-Ho-- after Civic-Holiday (laughs). And I stayed there- I was going to to go for about three years 'til we were able to start paying on a house or-something. I stayed for thirty-one (laughs). No thirty, I guess. I started in sixty-one and I quit in ninety-one.
A public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday of August.
ExampleMeaning
Yeah, got a Monday off, it was in the summer, kids weren't going to sc-- us kids weren't going to school, we took off- oh, it was a long weekend. It might have been a Civic-Holiday weekend of Labour-Day weekend, we took off Sunday morning and drove all the way up to Massey or Espanola.
A public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday of August.