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dog watch
noun
a work or guard shift in the middle of the night US, 1901- The girls we knew were all on the dogwatch, from four to twelve in the morning. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 22, 1946
- I was a kid dogwatch (after the last edition and before the first, next day) assistant city editor of the Chicago American. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 11, 19 August 1949
- — American Speech, p. 274, December 1954: “Fire terms: additional words and definitions”
- A member of our battery, standing the dog watch, saw him supsended under the stern of the neighboring vessel. — Martin Russ, The Last Parallel, p. 28, 1957
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