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Feierabend 

Feierabend (German, compound noun)

The glorious moment you slam shut your laptop, hang up your hard hat or toss down your tools and officially declare “I’m off the clock, baby!”

Constitutes of the words Feier (=celebration, party) and Abend (=Evening) and is often accompanied by the traditional Feierabendbier (= beer) or Feierabendbierchen (=small beer) aka happy hour beer.

Synonyms: knock‐off time, quitting time, TGIF on a daily loop.
Schönen Feierabend! (=Wishing a co-worker to enjoy there evening when they log off)

"Yo Dirk, want to go for a Feierabendbier tonight?" - "Ja Markus, auf geht's (=let's go)."
Feierabend by red-giant12 May 14, 2025
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feierabendbier 

What Germans do after work: they grab a beer and hang out with friends. They also drink beers before work (like for breakfast) but those beers they just call "bier" and not "feierabendbier".
"Yo Holger, want to grab a feierabendbier tonight?" - "Ja Dirk, das ist wunderbar."
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Feuerabend 

A German word that means that you go home and relax after work but there's fire everywhere.
I kinda enjoyed the Feuerabend after a hard day at work yesterday, I just wish my flat didn't get completely burned down to the ground.
Feuerabend by Lawand November 7, 2013

Fierabend 

Fierabend, German word. Mashup of Feierabend (end of the work day) and Bier (beer). Like "beer o'clock".
Hans, endlich Fierabend! Hohl mal Schnaps!
(Hans, beer o'clock! Get some booze!)
Fierabend by p47j43 January 15, 2018
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Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
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