early bright

plural early brights

1. datedjive talkMorning

   EARLY BRIGHT (N) — morning.

   [1939, Cab Calloway, Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary

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   He puts the boys to sleep with boogie every night / And wakes them up the same way in the early bright

   1941, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”, Don Raye (lyrics), Hughie Prince (music), performed by The Andrews Sisters

   It was three a.m. in the early brights, / And the joint was loaded with darks and lights. / A G.I. square was lapping Saki, / Hep to his jive, a Kat in Khaki.

   1942 September 23, “Dim Out”, in Yank, The Poets Cornered, page 14

   Old Satchmo is back on the Main Drag and is gonna be beatin' out-ta mess o' righteous jive at the shpo-shoo spot until the early brights.

   1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, in The Tampa Times

   She said she's leaving town about midnight / Arriving in the city on the early bright

   1951, Duke Ellington, “Blues at Sundown”

   Aw, let me get right / I’m out here in the early bright

   1953, Professor Longhair, “Ball the Wall”

   Synonyms: beforenoon, foreday, forenoon, matin, morn, morning, morrow, prime · Antonyms: early black, een, eve, even, evening, eventide, eveningtide, eveningtime