early bright

English

Noun

early bright (plural early brights)

1. (dated, jive talk) Morning

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:morning

   Antonyms: early black; see also Thesaurus:evening

   • [1939, Cab Calloway, Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary:

     EARLY BRIGHT (N) — morning.]

   • 1941, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”, Don Raye (lyrics), Hughie Prince (music), performed by The Andrews Sisters:

     He puts the boys to sleep with boogie every night / And wakes them up the same way in the early bright

   • 1942 September 23, “Dim Out”, in Yank, The Poets Cornered, page 14:

     It was three a.m. in the early brights, / And the joint was loaded with darks and lights. / A G.I. square was lapping Saki, / Hep to his jive, a Kat in Khaki.

   • 1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, in The Tampa Times:

     Old Satchmo is back on the Main Drag and is gonna be beatin' out-ta mess o' righteous jive at the shpo-shoo spot until the early brights.

   • 1951, Duke Ellington (lyrics and music), “Blues at Sundown”:

     She said she's leaving town about midnight / Arriving in the city on the early bright

   • 1953, Professor Longhair (lyrics and music), “Ball the Wall”:

     Aw, let me get right / I’m out here in the early bright

   • 1965, Marvin Gaye (lyrics and music), “Send for Me”:

     A-mornin', noon and night / And in the early bright / Don't you fret, my pretty pet / I'm gonna treat you right