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last posts

last posts is the plural of last post.

Meaning of last post

Noun

last post (plural last posts)

  1. (Canada, UK) The sounding of a bugle, signalling the evening hour to bed down, also used at military funerals and remembrance services.
    • Twenty minutes is allowed for the duration of the roll-call, the commencement and finish of which are sounded on the bugle, and are called the first and last ‘posts.’1876 September 30, “Drummers and Fifers”, in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, volume 4, number 666, page 629

Questions about last posts

What is last posts the plural of?
Last posts is the plural of last post.

Words near last posts in the dictionary

  1. last out
  2. last parsec problem
  3. last photon orbit
  4. last photon orbits
  5. last post
  6. last posts
  7. last quarter
  8. last quarters
  9. last refuge
  10. last refuges
  11. last resort

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