Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A device for cooling and dispensing drinking water.

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  • noun A dispenser of cooled drinking water.
  • noun figuratively A place in the workplace where employees gossip.
  • adjective of the nature of things discussed around a water-cooler

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a device for cooling and dispensing drinking water

Etymologies

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water +‎ cooler. In sense of gossip, compare scuttlebutt, of similar origin.

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