water cooler

water cooler
'water .cooler
n
1.) a piece of equipment, used especially in offices, from which you can get a cup of cold water to drink
2.) water cooler gossip
conversation about other people's behaviour or lives that happens in offices when people meet each other by the water cooler

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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