Meaning of lights-out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The time at night at which artificial lights are to be turned off, a curfew or bedtime.
   uncountable
2. The prescribed bedtime for persons living in a boarding school or staying in a hospital.
   uncountable
3. Something hopeless, over; unconsciousness.
   euphemistic, idiomatic, uncountable
4. A decisive play.
   idiomatic, uncountable

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Examples

“We were all expected to be in bed by lights-out.”

“It's gonna be lights out for you, pal!”

“Hardy landed a picture perfect right uppercut square on Padilla's jaw. It was lights out for the formerly undefeated pugilist.”

“Then, come November, the hunters are sitting there waiting for the unsuspecting gullible deer, and then it's lights out for the deer.”

“No one could really stop him in the second half and he was lights-out in OHL playoffs.”

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