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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