Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A time period, especially very late at night, during which the audience is very small compared to other times of the day.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, media, radio, television
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From graveyard + slot, from the analogy of death to absence, see also dead air, dead silence/dead silent.
