half-time

noun

1. the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
2. Sports. the intermission or rest period between the two halves of a football, basketball, or other game, during which spectators are often entertained by baton twirling, marching bands, or the like.

adjective

3. pertaining to or taking place during a halftime: The football fans were treated to a halftime exhibition by the marching band.

noun

1. sport
   1. a rest period between the two halves of a game
   2. (as modifier)the half-time score

n.

also halftime, half time, indicating “half of the time,” 1640s, from half + time. Tempo sense is by 1880. In football, from 1867.