"zérac" meaning in Français

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Noun

IPA: \ze.ʁak\ Forms: zéracs [plural]
  1. Quart (division du temps sur un bateau) de minuit à quatre heures du matin, quart particulièrement pénible et long. Tags: slang
    Sense id: fr-zérac-fr-noun-Wa-Akgrr Categories (other): Argot militaire en français Topics: military, nautical
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "arcez"
    },
    {
      "word": "Carez"
    },
    {
      "word": "carez"
    },
    {
      "word": "racez"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Français",
      "orig": "français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Contraction de zéro à quatre heures."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zéracs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Argot militaire en français",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Long comme un zérac !"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Juliette Arnaud, Maintenant, comme avant, France: Place des éditeurs, 2019",
          "text": "EMILIANO : Tu sais ce que c'est, le zérac ?\nBRUNO : Non.\nEMILIANO : C'est le pire quart pour les marins, celui de minuit à 4 heures. Nuit noire. T'as l'impression que l'aube ne viendra jamais."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Quart (division du temps sur un bateau) de minuit à quatre heures du matin, quart particulièrement pénible et long."
      ],
      "id": "fr-zérac-fr-noun-Wa-Akgrr",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "military",
        "nautical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ze.ʁak\\"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "masculine"
  ],
  "word": "zérac"
}
{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "arcez"
    },
    {
      "word": "Carez"
    },
    {
      "word": "carez"
    },
    {
      "word": "racez"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en français",
    "Noms communs en français",
    "français"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Contraction de zéro à quatre heures."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zéracs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Argot militaire en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Long comme un zérac !"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Juliette Arnaud, Maintenant, comme avant, France: Place des éditeurs, 2019",
          "text": "EMILIANO : Tu sais ce que c'est, le zérac ?\nBRUNO : Non.\nEMILIANO : C'est le pire quart pour les marins, celui de minuit à 4 heures. Nuit noire. T'as l'impression que l'aube ne viendra jamais."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Quart (division du temps sur un bateau) de minuit à quatre heures du matin, quart particulièrement pénible et long."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "military",
        "nautical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ze.ʁak\\"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "masculine"
  ],
  "word": "zérac"
}

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