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Saturday-night specials

Saturday-night specials is the plural of Saturday-night special.

Meaning of Saturday-night special

Noun

Saturday-night special (plural Saturday-night specials)

  1. (US) An inexpensive, easily obtained handgun.
  2. (US, historical) An overnight weekend train.
  3. (US, obsolete) A seasonal (usually October to December) sale on Saturday evening.
  4. (US, obsolete, slang) A girl who can be dated easily on Saturday evenings.
  5. (dated) An unexpected takeover bid that gives its opponents little time to respond.

Questions about Saturday-night specials

What is Saturday-night specials the plural of?
Saturday-night specials is the plural of Saturday-night special.

Words near Saturday-night specials in the dictionary

  1. Saturday-morning cartoon
  2. Saturday-morning cartoons
  3. Saturday-night pistol
  4. Saturday-night pistols
  5. Saturday-night special
  6. Saturday-night specials
  7. Saturdayed
  8. Saturdaying
  9. Saturdayish
  10. Saturdayness
  11. Saturdays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Saturday-night specials (page history and authors); Saturday-night special (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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