"social hour" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a period of time when people typically gather together and socialize, usually near the end of the workday. For example, "We'll have a social hour in the conference room at 5:30, so you can meet your new colleagues."
Marked trails, often a social hour afterwards.
Meanwhile some people turned practice into social hour.
Foreign correspondents are conceited, maudlin and belligerent in their social hour, and Clem and Silverman together are no exception.
Amenities include passes to a local gym, free bicycles for touring the old city and an evening social hour.
Its nine rooms start at $170 and include breakfast and a social hour with drinks and hors d'oeuvres.
At a recent Workers Defense Project meeting — they are held every Tuesday night — the atmosphere was part pep rally, part educational session, part social hour.
I struck up a conversation with a Jesuit during the social hour after the service, and was startled when he introduced himself as Norman Tanner.
He has started to sketch the blueprints for a more ambitious anaerobic system, during a Monday social hour that he calls "Gassifier Therapy".
That is the attitude among a group of mostly retired denizens of Sullivan Street, who have transformed its twice-weekly no-parking times into a social hour.
Since June, Sheraton has been testing an 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. social hour at bars at its hotels in New York, Stamford and Boston, Intended to help guests unplug from their cellphones and personal digital assistants, the social hour features drinks like the blackberry martini.
At the monthly social hour of the Brooklyn Oratory Young Professionals recently, three dozen parishioners in their 20s and 30s mingled around a table of pigs in blankets, carafes of wine and bottles of Brooklyn Brewery beer.
