small hours

plural noun

: the early morning hours

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The coat check at the Salamander Hotel was still so backed up into the small hours of Monday that people took matters into their own hands and pushed past the claim table to fetch their own coats. —

Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025 Republican nominee Donald Trump claimed to have defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the presidential election in the small hours of Wednesday as poll results were still pouring into battleground states including Michigan and Wisconsin. —

Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024 The game garnered 256 million hours of viewing in India, an incredible figure for a contest that finished in the small hours of the morning there. —

Matt Slater, The Athletic, 26 July 2024 In the small hours of her 44th birthday on Monday, Oct. 21, Kardashian posted footage of herself wearing a nude dress for some early birthday celebrations. —

Escher Walcott, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for small hours