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rush hour

noun as in heaviest commuter traffic

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(Imagine the Flatiron building collapsing one sunny, rush-hour evening).

Our first step was ranking the metropolitan areas with the worst rush-hour congestion.

On his return, he found the trains running on the five-minute, rush-hour schedule.

Malone hadn't reckoned with New York's rush-hour traffic, and, after seeing it, he still didn't believe it.

Once underway, the caravan made reckless progress through rush-hour traffic.

In ten minutes you long for the comparative ease of the rush-hour at Brooklyn Bridge.

It takes big cars to climb those hills, let alone haul the trailers that are a feature of the Pittsburgh rush-hour traffic.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rush hour, such as: congestion, traffic jam, bottleneck, gridlock, heavy traffic, and jam.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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