happy hour
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Definition
- Noun:
- A designated period, typically in the late afternoon or early evening, when a bar, pub, or restaurant sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price. This is often used as a promotional strategy to attract customers during slower business hours.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Let's meet for drinks during happy hour.
- The bar's happy hour features half-price cocktails from 4 to 6 PM.
- They offer discounted appetizers as well as drinks for happy hour.
Advanced Usage
- "Extended happy hour": A happy hour period that lasts longer than the typical one or two hours.
- On Fridays, they have an extended happy hour until 8 PM.
- "Happy hour specials": Refers specifically to the discounted drinks and food items offered during this time.
- Check the board for today's happy hour specials.
Variants and Related Words
- Happy hour pricing (noun phrase): The reduced price structure used during the happy hour period.
- The happy hour pricing makes it very affordable.
Synonyms
- Discount period: A general term for a time when prices are reduced.
- Reduced-price drinks: A descriptive phrase for the main offering.
Related Phrases
- "Catch the happy hour": To arrive at a venue in time to take advantage of the happy hour prices.
- If we leave now, we can catch the happy hour.
- "Happy hour is over": Literally means the discounted period has ended; can be used figuratively to indicate that a period of ease or favorable conditions has passed.
- The free funding is gone; happy hour is over for that startup.
Noun
- the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price