time machine

noun

time machine

(in science fiction) a machine in which people or objects can be transported into the past or the future

First recorded in 1890–95

Doritos: Time Machine Forget your run-of-the-mill lemonade stand.

Or would it be disappointing to us if were to suddenly go back in a time machine?

It was like a time machine to the golden age of smoking, when there were ashtrays on elevators and in movie theaters.

Those of us who live in Russia often feel like we have been forced into a time machine.

Either that or build a time machine and go back to the day before you started drinking.

But even an age of war and pestilence could be observed without torment from behind the protective shields of the Time Machine.

The "time-machine" came to rest with a soft jar and a crashing of broken bushes that was audible through the sound pickup.

Then the whole interior of the "time-machine" was afire; there was barely time for Hradzka to leap through the open door.

It was just as well, I suppose, though he was too hurt to think so; he had more leisure to develop the time machine.

It is one of those found on the shores of the Future by the traveler who voyaged on the Time Machine.

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