"happy hour" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-happy hour.wav Forms: happy hours [plural]
Etymology: US origin, 1950s. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} happy hour (countable and uncountable, plural happy hours)
  1. A time of day, usually in the afternoon or early evening, when a bar or pub offers its drinks at a discounted price. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-happy_hour-en-noun-vKGEiThk
  2. Any small gathering, usually in the afternoon or early evening, set aside to relax and have a drink. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-happy_hour-en-noun-bkes7tuX
  3. (Cockney rhyming slang, in the plural) Flowers. Tags: Cockney, countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Alcoholism, Drinking
    Sense id: en-happy_hour-en-noun-vuiU5X~X Disambiguation of Alcoholism: 10 29 60 Disambiguation of Drinking: 10 27 63 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 26 68 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 19 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 6 17 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 21 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 6 19 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 7 15 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Estonian translations: 7 15 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 7 15 78 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 7 17 76 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 7 16 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 7 15 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 6 14 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 7 16 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 8 17 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 6 17 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 6 14 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 5 14 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (pub discount drinking hours): سَاعَة سَعِيدَة (alt: sāʕa(t) saʕīda) (Arabic), 欢乐时间 (huānlè shíjiān) (Chinese Mandarin), õnnetund (Estonian), happy hour (Finnish), 5 à [masculine] (French), Happy Hour [feminine] (German), gleðistund [feminine] (Icelandic), happy hour (Italian), happy hour [masculine] (Polish), happy hour [masculine] (Portuguese), счастливый час (sčastlivyj čas) (Russian), hora feliz [feminine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'pub discount drinking hours': 37 23 41

Inflected forms

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