Definition of small hours
: the early morning hours
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To continue reading this story, TRY IT NOW Those days seemed far away in the wee small hours of Thursday morning.
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There was once in New York, not all that long ago, but certainly no longer, power tables fully occupied in the wee small hours of every morning in great saloons throughout our fair city.
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