HAPPY HOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does happy hour mean? 

• HAPPY HOUR (noun)
  The noun HAPPY HOUR has 1 sense:

1. the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price

  Familiarity information: HAPPY HOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAPPY HOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("happy hour" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

 Context examples 

The man had not known one happy hour since he had left the children in the forest; the woman, however, was dead.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

For in that sad yet happy hour, she had learned not only the bitterness of remorse and despair, but the sweetness of self-denial and self-control, and led by her mother's hand, she had drawn nearer to the Friend who always welcomes every child with a love stronger than that of any father, tenderer than that of any mother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Little they cared what anybody thought, for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)