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zero hour en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Synonym of H-hour.
   • I waited with occasional glances at my watch until the zero hour should arrive. 1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
   • She packed my bags last night, pre-flight / Zero hour 9 a.m. / And I'm gonna be high / As a kite by then 1972 April 17, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man”, in Honky Château, performed by Elton John:
   • Zero hour was forty-five minutes after midnight.Two companies were to attack on a 600-yard front […]. 1937, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, 1972 paperback edition, London: Faber, page 339:

Forms

Relateds

zero-hour contract · X-Day · D-Day

Synonyms

H-hour

Translations (3)

nb klokken H (Translations) · pl godzina zero (Translations) · de Stunde Null (Translations)