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dawn patrol noun any activity that requires staying up all night or getting up very early US Originally a military term, later applied figuratively.- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 44, 1945
- “I suffered through those dawn patrol meetings myself,” says Masters. — San Francisco News, p. 23, 19 September 1951
- Therefore, I insisted that one girl work the dawn patrol. — Madam Sherry, Pleasure Was My Business, p. 107, 1963
- — Dawson Taylor, How to Talk Golf, p. 27, 1985
- — Mitch McKissick, Surf Lingo, 1987
- Dawn patrol–major dawn patrol. My son had a full blown attack. — As Good As It Gets, 1997
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