Meanings
- USslanguncountablegovernmentAn 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 2901 more example
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 4Synonyms: stupid o'clock, wee small hours
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn otherwise unspecified time of night; some time when it is dark out.
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0-dark-hundred. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/0-dark-hundred
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