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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
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)
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