0-dark-thirty

A form of oh dark thirty — Some unspecified hour in the early morning (implying an unpleasant time to be awake).

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noun0-dark-thirty (uncountable)
  1. USalternativeslanguncountablegovernmentAlternative form of oh dark thirty.

    In the very early morning--0-dark-30--the veterans have the Wall entirely to themselves, which is the main reason that we go at that hour.

    2002, Jonathan Shay, Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
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