LAST HURRAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does last hurrah mean? 

• LAST HURRAH (noun)
  The noun LAST HURRAH has 1 sense:

1. a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)

  Familiarity information: LAST HURRAH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAST HURRAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A final performance or effort (especially before retirement)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

last hurrah; swan song

Hypernyms ("last hurrah" is a kind of...):

performance (the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment)

 Context examples 

This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our sun.

(Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star, NASA)