postmidnight

English

Etymology

post- +‎ midnight

Adjective

postmidnight (not comparable)

  1. After midnight, but prior to dawn
    • 2007 January 1, John F. Burns, “U.S. Questioned Iraq on the Rush to Hang Hussein”, in New York Times:
      Hussein's being taken to his execution from his cell in an American military detention center in the postmidnight chill of Saturday had a surreal and even cinematic quality.

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