English Dictionary

0-dark-hundred

名詞

アメリカ英語 俗語 不可算名詞

(chiefly US military slang) An otherwise unspecified time of night; some time when it is dark out.

日本語の意味

（主に米軍スラング）夜間に、具体的な時間ではなく、ただ「暗い」時刻を指す：つまり、暗闇の中のある時間帯、または夜が深く暗くなる時間を意味する

The convoy departed at 0-dark-hundred, moving silently through the sleeping town.

その車列は未明に出発し、眠る街を静かに進んだ。

意味（1）

(chiefly US military slang) An otherwise unspecified time of night; some time when it is dark out.

Which is precisely why I'd volunteered as point man on this little jaunt, prowling and growling up the unlit stairwell of a Cairo slum at 0-dark-hundred to catch my quarry napping on his bedroll.