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/zˈɪroʊ ˈaʊər/ Listen

Zero hour

noun

The time set for the start of an action or operation.

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"Zero hour" Quotes from Famous Books

... life, despite the lost arms and legs which they scarcely seem to regret; their souls still triumph over the body and the temporal. As they hobble through the streets of London, they display the same gay courage that was theirs when at zero hour, with a fifty-fifty chance of death, they hopped over the ...

— The Glory of the Trenches • Coningsby Dawson

... would have been fittingly celebrated but for the fact that five o'clock the following morning had been designated as "zero hour" for the greatest drive ever undertaken by Americans on foreign soil. He had arrived just in time to hurl himself into the feverish preparations for the support which all air units must give the massed ground forces that would hurl themselves upon the supposedly impregnable ...

— Aces Up • Covington Clarke

Words linked to "Zero hour" : hour, time of day