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I am looking for a conventional antonym for peak hour.

As far as I've seen, the term off-peak hours is used. Still, to me this means any hour that is not the peak hour, which is not necessarily the hour with the least clients or activity in a business.

Here is an example sentence:

Eight o'clock till nine o'clock is our peak hour; two o'clock till three o'clock is our _____.

Can anybody please help with this?

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  • I'm guessing "slowest hour" is not colorful enough?
    – DyingIsFun
    Jul 27, 2016 at 0:33

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Consider slack ("wanting in activity").

Two o'clock till three o'clock is our slack period.

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Consider "lull" period which is the slowest time in activities of an establishment.

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  • Answers should contain definition and it source, for questions like the this one.
    – vickyace
    Apr 19, 2017 at 14:30
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It's a bit klunky, but I've seen doldrums used this way before:

A state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or slump (Merriam-Webster)

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  • What catches me is that M-W calls doldrums a plural noun, yet it's defined as "a state or period". So I'm perplexed whether it would be " two o'clock till three o'clock is\are our doldrums. Apr 19, 2017 at 10:10

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