power hour
n.— «Games like “hall crawl,” where partygoers sample a different drink in each room of a dorm or fraternity house. Or “power hour,” which requires ingesting a shot of beer each minute for 60 minutes.» —“Binge drinking: On campus, why does one drink lead to another…and another?” by Alan Scher Zagier News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Dec. 13, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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