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oh dark hundred

oh dark hundred noun: some unspecified hour in the early morning (implies an unpleasant time to be awake).

Noun

oh dark hundred

  1. (idiomatic) Some unspecified hour in the early morning (implies an unpleasant time to be awake)
    • I had to get up at oh dark hundred to catch a plane.

Synonyms of oh dark hundred

Forms of oh dark hundred

alternative form0-dark-hundred

Origin of oh dark hundred

From military time, in which hours before 10:00 am are prefixed with a zero, read as "oh", and 00 minutes is read as "hundred", as in oh five-hundred for 5:00 am.

Questions about oh dark hundred

What does oh dark hundred mean?
Oh dark hundred means some unspecified hour in the early morning (implies an unpleasant time to be awake).
What part of speech is oh dark hundred?
Oh dark hundred is a noun.

Words near oh dark hundred in the dictionary

  1. Ogygia
  2. Ogygian
  3. oh
  4. oh ar
  5. oh boy
  6. oh dark hundred
  7. oh dark thirty
  8. oh dear
  9. oh em gee
  10. oh for
  11. oh fors

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