family hour

noun Television Informal.
any broadcast period from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. when programs of general interest to the family are broadcast.
Also called family time.


Origin:
1970–75

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Main Entry:  family hour
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  a time during the evening when families are together talking, working on homework, or being entertained
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Family hour is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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My understanding about how that happened was that there was regulation with regard to so-called family hour on television.
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