Happy hour is a period when drinks are sold cheaply. Catch happy hour.
It is usually longer than an hour, which nobody has ever complained about. Happy hour exists to fill a bar in the dead time between work and the evening.
1nounhappy hourA period when drinks are sold cheaply.
“Happy hour ran from five until eight, which is three hours.”
happy hour is a period.
An American phrase of the 1950s, probably from naval slang for a scheduled period of entertainment aboard ship.
US origin, 1950s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Restaurant & Cafe