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early bright

early bright noun: morning.

Noun

early bright (plural early brights)

  1. (dated, jive talk) Morning
    • EARLY BRIGHT (N) — morning.[1939, Cab Calloway, Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary
    • He puts the boys to sleep with boogie every night / And wakes them up the same way in the early bright1941, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”, Don Raye (lyrics), Hughie Prince (music), performed by The Andrews Sisters

Examples of early bright in a sentence

  • It was three a.m. in the early brights, / And the joint was loaded with darks and lights. / A G.I. square was lapping Saki, / Hep to his jive, a Kat in Khaki.1942 September 23, “Dim Out”, in Yank, The Poets Cornered, page 14:
  • Old Satchmo is back on the Main Drag and is gonna be beatin' out-ta mess o' righteous jive at the shpo-shoo spot until the early brights.1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, in The Tampa Times:
  • She said she's leaving town about midnight / Arriving in the city on the early bright1951, Duke Ellington, “Blues at Sundown”:
  • Aw, let me get right / I’m out here in the early bright1953, Professor Longhair, “Ball the Wall”:

Synonyms of early bright

Antonyms

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Forms of early bright

pluralearly brights

Questions about early bright

What does early bright mean?
Early bright means morning.
How do you use early bright in a sentence?
It was three a.m. in the early brights, / And the joint was loaded with darks and lights. / A G.I. square was lapping Saki, / Hep to his jive, a Kat in Khaki.
What part of speech is early bright?
Early bright is a noun.
What is the plural of early bright?
The plural of early bright is early brights.

Words near early bright in the dictionary

  1. early bird specials
  2. early birds
  3. early blight
  4. early bloomer
  5. early bloomers
  6. early bright
  7. early brights
  8. early childhood
  9. early childhood education
  10. early childhoods
  11. early closing

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