rush hour meaning: definition, quotations

rush hour

nounalso spelled rush-hour

Idiomatic The times of the day when traffic jams are commonplace, due mainly to people commuting to or from work.

It takes 30 minutes to drive there, but maybe 2 hours during the rush hour.
Operation London Bridge, also from 1975, tells the story of the busy station's redevelopment. Cutting neatly from the barrow boys of Borough Market to an aerial view of Borough Market Junction, the film uses time lapse photography to show the congestion rife in the area during the morning rush hour.2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 48:

adj

Of or pertaining to the rush hour.

The rush-hour trains are normally extremely busy.
An extra rush-hour train has eased overcrowding of the former 5.39 p.m. to Salisbury; this now leaves at 5.43 and an additional electric service to Alton departs at 5.39 p.m.1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 593–594: