Definition of "happy hour" []

• A period of time, usually in late afternoon and early evening, during which a bar or lounge features drinks at reduced prices. (noun)

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• "The only thought running through their brains wasI wonder where happy hour will be?"
• "So, besides the males from Planet AD, maybe the wild and wooly Right Stuff astronaut—that astronaut who lives life at the edge of the envelope, be it at happy hour or in a cockpit—has also gone the way of the dodo."
• "I spent a happy hour whittling it from a piece of firewood with my Opinel knife from the Dordogne."