Peak hour (n.)
A term commonly used by DJs to refer to the busiest period of a night at a gig, whether it's a house party, club event, or rave. It's the time of night when the crowd is the biggest, and the DJ is spinning the most popular, energetic, and dramatic tracks (colloquially, "anthems", "bangers", and "choons"). It is usually also the time during which the headlining DJ is on the decks.
By association, it can be used to describe the tracks that one would play during this period, and record labels will often advertise a release as being a "peak hour tune" to increase the hype around the record.
People waving their hands in the air, drinks spilling, sweat, whistles, yells, and huge musical buildups are all strong signs that peak hour is arrived.
Not dancing during peak hour, or worse, leaving before it, is to be highly frowned upon.
"The new Popof remix is total peak hour techno."
"We got to the club just before peak hour."
"I played a set of electroand then dropped some tech house tracks at the start of peak hour."
An entirely sarcastic term used to imply that a problem is going to be time- and soul-consuming. It's a twist on an old advertising phrase for games and toys, applied with the opposite intended meaning.
This style puts much error recovery and clean-up code very far from the thing that spawned the error. Hours Of Fun!
The last possible moment before fate is decided.
In countries that watch a lot of soccer, it's more common to say 90th minute.
At the 11th hour, the judge pardoned the death-row inmate.
The hour between midnight and 1:00 AM when the highest occurrence of paranormal activity takes place.
In the film “Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour,” the spirits come back to haunt us between midnight and 1:00 AM
Approximately 3 am when two people who met at the bar should be hooking up and not engaging in idle chatter, otherwise its time to go to bed. Especially applicable on a trip, where multiple dudes are sharing a hotel room and your buddy needs to get down or the barfly needs to go home.
The donging hour has arrived, Jeff needs to close the deal or that bar skank needs to go home.
Situation when you wake up 1 hour before alarm, and realise that you can sleep that period.
Oh it's 6AM, i have 1 more hour... happy hour.... zzzzzzz!
The Hour between 3 am and 4 am. Called this because this is the time that the most people die in their sleep in hospitals. Significant because this is also the time that people are generally sleeping deepest, so things are quietest.
The robbers chose to wait till the dead hour to break into the store, because there would be no-one to see them, and no-one would wake up.