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AFTER HOURS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does after hours mean? 

AFTER HOURS (adverb)
  The adverb AFTER HOURS has 1 sense:

1. not during regular hoursplay

  Familiarity information: AFTER HOURS used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AFTER HOURS (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not during regular hours

Context example:

he often worked after hours


 Context examples 


Suppose that Cadogan West wished to make his way into the building after hours; he would need three keys, would he not, before he could reach the papers?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew the kind, so thick and so close of texture that it could resist the rain and not be soaked through after hours of wetting.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Minnie and Joram have just stepped down to the house, in fact (she's there, after hours, helping her aunt a bit), to ask her how he is tonight; and if you was to please to wait till they come back, they'd give you full partic'lers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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