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Definition of "dogwatch" []

  • Nautical Either of two short periods of watch duty, from 4 to 6 P.M. or 6 to 8 P.M. (noun)
  • A late night shift. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "dogwatch" in a sentence
  • "The officers who came to Walker's aid had worked the "dogwatch" or overnight shift with him on the North Side for most of their time with the department."
  • "In the middle of the first dogwatch, cocoanut trees were sighted due south, their tufted heads rising above the water and marking the low-lying atoll beneath."
  • "This supernatural quasi-human dogwatch crew was no match for a magnificent canine using all of his animal instincts unclouded by any other agenda than saving the human whod saved his ass."
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