closing time

Definitions

1. 1

   The time when a public house or restaurant closes. Used to invite final drink orders.

   • Sometimes when you sit in a restaurant, still stuffing yourself half an hour after closing time, you feel that the tired waiter at your side must surely be despising you.
   • all the women tear their blouses off / and the men they dance on the polka-dots / and it's partner found, it's partner lost / and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops: / it's closing time
2. 2

   Used to suggest that a deadline for action is imminent.

   • No. You're supposed to die for me. By the way, I did think of asking you to join my little scheme, but somehow I knew that 007's loyalty was always to the mission — never to his friend. Closing time, James. Last call.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see closing, time.

The neighborhood

• neighbordrinking-up time
• neighborlast call
• neighborlast orders
• neighbortime