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0-dark-hundred en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US, slang, uncountable) An otherwise unspecified time of night; some time when it is dark out.
    • 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:
    • 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:

Relateds

beer o'clock · dark thirty · 0-dark-thirty · oh dark thirty · oh dark hundred · zero dark thirty

Synonyms

wee small hours · stupid o'clock