rush hournoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈrʌʃ ˌaʊər/us/ˈrʌʃ ˌaʊr/B2 the busy part of the day when towns and cities are crowded, either in the morning when people are travelling to work, or in the evening when people are travelling home:
rush hour traffic
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On the road: traffic jams
- back
- back up
- backed up
- bottleneck
- bumper
- bumper to bumper idiom
- congested
- gridlock
- jam
- rasta roko
- snarled up
- sock
- sock sth/sb in (with sb)
- tail
- tail back
- tailback
- traffic
- traffic calming
- traffic jam
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