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after-hours
adjective
open after bars and nightclubs close at 2am US, 1947- [T]hose highways which in their time have known throngs of sightseers, which in the heyday of Harlem hotspots housed cabarets and after-hour joints known around the world[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 96, 1948
- There are, too, a few after-hours spots left in Harlem[.] — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 67, 1956
- So lovely, in fact, that at least three After Hours Sports are serving booze after hours. Good booze, too. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 34, 9 July 1957
- I had always stayed away from after-hours joints because I was afraid they would be busted by the police[.] — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 139, 1964
- Some of them had little nightclubs, after-hours places. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 166, 1965
- Around this time the greatest “after hours” spot ever, opened in “Harlem”. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 98, 1967
- His place, and all the other after-hours joints, wouldn’t begin to swing until the bars closed, then they’d come alive. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 85, 1968
- One night, me and Reggie closed up my joint and then went over to this after-hours joint downtown Manhattan. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 81, 1975
- What about after hours? Vincent asked him ... After hours what, gambling? Twenty hours you don’t get enough? You can find it. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 106, 1985
- In the early morning hours, before the city has washed her face, people stream out of after-hours clubs like Jump-Offs along Seventh Avenue[.] — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 97, 1989
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