- an imaginary situation, described for example in science fiction, in which it is possible for people or things from the past or the future to move to the present
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See time warp in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe (stuck) in a time warp
- not having changed at all from a time in the past although everything else has
- Her whole house seems to be stuck in a time warp. It’s like something out of the 1950s.
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