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Lights-out

//ˈlaɪts.aʊt// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Done or performed in the dark because of a fully automated working environment. Often describes night shift or third shift work. not-comparable

    "lights-out manufacturing"

Noun
  1. 1
    The time at night at which artificial lights are to be turned off, a curfew or bedtime. uncountable
  2. 2
    (military) signal to turn the lights out wordnet
  3. 3
    The prescribed bedtime for persons living in a boarding school or staying in a hospital. uncountable

    "We were all expected to be in bed by lights-out."

  4. 4
    a prescribed bedtime wordnet
  5. 5
    Something hopeless, over; unconsciousness. euphemistic, idiomatic, uncountable

    "It's gonna be lights out for you, pal!"

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  1. 6
    A decisive play. idiomatic, uncountable

    "No one could really stop him in the second half and he was lights-out in OHL playoffs."

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