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oh dark hundred

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

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noun

From military time, in which hours before 10:00 am are prefixed with a zero, read as "oh", and 00 minutes is read as "hundred", as in oh five-hundred for 5:00 am.

0-dark-hundred (alternative)

0-dark-thirty dark thirty oh dark thirty zero dark thirty

0-dark-thirty dark thirty oh dark thirty zero dark thirty

What does oh dark hundred mean?: Some unspecified hour in the early morning (implies an unpleasant time to be awake)
Where does oh dark hundred come from?: From military time, in which hours before 10:00 am are prefixed with a zero, read as "oh", and 00 minutes is read as "hundred", as in oh five-hundred for 5:00 am.

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