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Small hours

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Noun
  1. 1
    The very early morning, just after midnight, when most people are asleep. plural, plural-only

    "Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city."

  2. 2
    the hours just after midnight wordnet

Etymology

From the small number used to identify such hours (e.g. 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock).

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