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Definition of Lights-out
1. Noun. A prescribed bedtime.
2. Noun. (military) signal to turn the lights out.
Generic synonyms: Bugle Call
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Definition of Lights-out
1. Noun. The time at night at which artificial lights are to be turned off, a curfew or bedtime. ¹
2. Noun. The prescribed bedtime for persons living in a boarding school or staying in a hospital. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lights-out
Literary usage of Lights-out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1906)
"But it is pathetic and chilling to see men arrive with their lights out, already
in the darkness, already in the desolation which is the doom of those who ..."
2. The Annual Library Index edited by William Isaac Fletcher, Helen Elizabeth Haines (1906)
"R. 15 : BEYERLEIN, FRANZ A. Lights out. (M. Beer- bohm) Sat. — R. 100: 553-4().
BEYLE, MARIE HENRI. (Count Lützow) No. ..."
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