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0-dark-hundred

0-dark-hundred noun: an otherwise unspecified time of night; some time when it is dark out.

Noun

0-dark-hundred (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) An otherwise unspecified time of night; some time when it is dark out.
    • Which is precisely why I'd volunteered as point man on this little jaunt, prowling and growling up the unlit stairwell of a Cairo slum at 0-dark-hundred to catch my quarry napping on his bedroll.1996, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, Green Team: Rogue Warrior III, page 4
    • It's late, and we have to get up at 0-dark-hundred to got to Paris in the AM.2011, Diane L. Sheridan, Don't Forget the Flippin' E: A Memoir, page 290

Synonyms of 0-dark-hundred

Questions about 0-dark-hundred

What does 0-dark-hundred mean?
0-dark-hundred means an otherwise unspecified time of night; some time when it is dark out.
What part of speech is 0-dark-hundred?
0-dark-hundred is a noun.

Words near 0-dark-hundred in the dictionary

  1. 0-8-2s
  2. 0-8-4
  3. 0-8-4s
  4. 0-8-8-0
  5. 0-8-8-0s
  6. 0-dark-hundred
  7. 0-dark-thirty
  8. 0-day
  9. 0-days
  10. 0-dimensional
  11. 0-dimensional chess

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