zero hour
noun1
Synonym of H-hour.
- I waited with occasional glances at my watch until the zero hour should arrive.1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
- Zero hour was forty-five minutes after midnight.Two companies were to attack on a 600-yard front […].1937, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, 1972 paperback edition, London: Faber, page 339:
1 more example
- She packed my bags last night, pre-flight / Zero hour 9 a.m. / And I'm gonna be high / As a kite by then1972 April 17, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man”, in Honky Château, performed by Elton John:
- Related terms
- D-Day, X-Day, zero-hour contract