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wine o'clock

wine o'clock

8.9
A time in the evening for relaxing and drinking wine
  • noun
  • Slang
translation icon : hora del vino
  • After a long week at work, I love to unwind during wine o'clock on Friday evening.

As Winston Churchill said, It's wine o'clock somewhere, McCarthy.

Examples

  • As Winston Churchill said, It's wine o'clock somewhere, McCarthy.

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  • It's time for it's virgin wine O'clock somewhere here.

  • Every day at seven, my friends and I gather to celebrate wine o'clock with a glass of our favorite red.

  • Whenever the clock strikes five, I know it's officially wine o'clock in my house.

Synonyms

beer o'clock
vswine o'clock
  • Slang
1 9.5

A time after work or at a social event when people drink beer

is the informal time for drinking a typically more formal alcoholic drink

Surface Forms

wine o'clock singular
wine o'clocks plural

Morphology

wine + o'clock

The phrase is a straightforward composition of 'wine' (the drink) + 'o'clock' (indicating a time), so it signals a time designated for drinking wine; this follows the common English pattern of X o'clock / time for X. Although informal and playful, the meaning is directly inferable from the constituents, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.

Etymology

Wine o'clock comes from the playful image of a clock that points to wine, using the idea of o'clock to mark the time. That's why people say it to mean 'a time to relax and drink wine'.