"keep good hours" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: keeps good hours [present, singular, third-person], keeping good hours [participle, present], kept good hours [participle, past], kept good hours [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> good hours}} keep good hours (third-person singular simple present keeps good hours, present participle keeping good hours, simple past and past participle kept good hours)
  1. To go to bed and to rise early; to lead a quiet and regular life. Related terms: early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise, go to bed with the chickens, rise with the lark
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