Definitions
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- noun a signal to turn the lights out.
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- noun The time at night at which
artificial lights are to beturned off , acurfew orbedtime . - noun The prescribed
bedtime for persons living in aboarding school or staying in ahospital .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (military) signal to turn the lights out
- noun a prescribed bedtime
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Examples
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Working in Schaub's preference is the actuality which Nelson, notwithstanding excellent grappling technique, is not the lights-out acquiescence threat, which gives someone similar to Schaub the possibility to urge as good as survive to re-assert control after in the fight.
MMA Ratings: Fight Picks and Predictions for TUF 10 Finale: More Kimbo admin 2009
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But at the Naval Academy, midshipmen's daily lives are scheduled from dawn till lights-out.
Synthetic marijuana widely used at Naval Academy, some midshipmen say 2011
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It felt like lights-out at a particularly violent summer camp.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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Working in Schaub's preference is the actuality which Nelson, notwithstanding excellent grappling technique, is not the lights-out acquiescence threat, which gives someone similar to Schaub the possibility to urge as good as survive to re-assert control after in the fight.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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Bocek might not have the most dominant wrestling in the sport, though he has the single of the greatest arsenals of takedown techniques, as good as he has lights-out, extremely high-level jiu-jitsu.
MMA Ratings: Fight Picks and Predictions for TUF 10 Finale: More Kimbo admin 2009
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By the time the game was over, my brother and I were already in bed, maybe even asleep -- Mom was a strict lights-out enforcer in those days -- but if the score got too lopsided while we were awake, we'd turn off the radio and throw on Cream or the Doors for a side before we crashed.
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This led to lights-out in winter mid-afternoon and thus the cycle repeated itself.
GPs can't cope with the elderly alone. They need support | The big issue 2011
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The plan was for the multinational formation to fly lights-out, but the different levels of training and experience began to tell.
The Last Ace 2009
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This party was not as raucous as the one for Sarge's first deployment, where lights-out came around 5 a.m.
While My Son Serves Dave Shiflett 2011
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Bocek might not have the most dominant wrestling in the sport, though he has the single of the greatest arsenals of takedown techniques, as good as he has lights-out, extremely high-level jiu-jitsu.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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