opening night

English

Noun

opening night (plural opening nights)

  1. The first night, evening, or day of a spectacle or show.
    • 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club‎[1]:
      I’m writing in pure hyperbole. I know this. I just don’t know another way to talk about this movie. Watching Fury Road in the theater on opening night, I worried that I was being obnoxious, gleefully cackling with glee and, more than once, literally throwing my hands up in disbelief.
    • '2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport‎[2]:
      With their lead cut to 14-7, England could have got twitchy, but any opening-night'Bold text nerves were eased as United States centre Alev Kelter, who plays her club rugby with Loughborough Lightning, was shown yellow a minute after Jarrell-Searcy's score.
  2. The first event in a new venue.

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