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water cooler

noun

  1. a container for holding drinking water that is cooled and drawn off by a faucet or spigot.
  2. a drinking fountain in which water is cooled by mechanical refrigeration.


water cooler

noun

  1. a device for cooling and dispensing drinking water
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. informal.
    1. indicating the kind of informal conversation among office staff that takes place at such a dispenser

      water-cooler conversations

    2. indicating an event, television programme, etc, sufficiently controversial or otherwise noteworthy to provide subject matter for such conversations

      water-cooler television

      a water-cooler moment

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of water cooler1

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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Example Sentences

If 2014 was any indication, the coming TV schedule is sure to be filled with plenty of water-cooler shows.

A bottle of locally brewed liquor chills in a water cooler in the corner, a Pepsi bottle next to it for mixing.

“My ideal is that this conversation happens at the water cooler,” Tambor says.

All likely had some uncomfortable small talk to make at the water cooler when they got back.

If all of it was true, Stratford Oakmont must have had some of the most awkward water-cooler talks in corporate history.

He got up, lurching to the motion of the flying train, and started forward to the water cooler behind the car door.

He went to the water cooler, filled the glass with cold water and presented it to the young lady.

After a copious raid on the water-cooler, Theodora returned, feeling a little bloated, but much more composed and natural.

At his side lay the torso of the young reporter, his head mashed by the heavy water-cooler.

In getting a small boat see that it is a "water cooler," as an air-cooler will run a few minutes and stop, as the piston swells.

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