zero hour

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] the time when an important event, an attack, etc. is planned to start: It's five minutes to zero hour.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

zero hourEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary zero hourEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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zero hour