Valentine's Day
- 1February 14, traditionally celebrated as a day for romantic love, marked by exchanging cards, flowers, and gifts.
He surprised her with a dozen roses on Valentine's Day.
Restaurants get fully booked weeks before Valentine's Day.
Note
A name that can also be counted: people speak of their Valentine's Days in the plural, meaning each year's celebration as they have lived it. Wynton Marsalis does this in 1994 with "our candlelight dinners, our Valentine's Days." In the plural the apostrophe stays where it is, and only Day takes the -s. The name also works as a plain date, so news writing can fix even a tragedy to it, as with the Parkland school massacre.
- 2In bingo, the traditional spoken call used to announce the number fourteen as it is drawn.
Everyone groaned when the caller announced Valentine's Day instead of the number they still needed.
He ticked his card the moment Valentine's Day was called across the hall.
Note
Bingo callers give numbers nicknames, and this one borrows its number from the February holiday: the day falls on the fourteenth, so the call means 14. It belongs to the hall rather than the page. Players hear it and mark 14 on their cards, and outside the game no one would use it to mean the number.
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