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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 be turned off, a curfew or bedtime.
  • noun The prescribed bedtime for persons living in a boarding school or staying in a hospital.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • It felt like lights-out at a particularly violent summer camp.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Jack Bog's Blog: July 2009 Archives 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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