last hurrah

1. 1.

   a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)

   Synonymsswan song

   Broaderperformance

Questions about last hurrah

What does last hurrah mean?

last hurrah means "a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)".

What is another word for last hurrah?

Close synonyms include swan song. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is last hurrah a common word?

last hurrah is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.