Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A coil of pipes, similar to a brine-cooler, for cooling distilled water by means of fresh cold water, preparatory to freezing it in making ice.
  • noun Any device for cooling water; especially, a vessel with non-conducting walls in which water for drinking is placed with ice.

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Examples

  • We have a generic office background (including a water-cooler and plant).

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » I’d appreciate your design input… again 2009

  • All the tension and embarrassment-induced squirming comes to a marvelous dove-tail when Fragasso loses his cool at a screening of Troll 2 followed by a Q&A with the cast in which they tell water-cooler stories about how awful the making of the film really was.

    [REVIEW] Best Worst Movie « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • I'm sorry that when those pictures were found and published by the sleazy, greasy little websites that feel they're performing some kind of public service by doing crap like this, everybody got together around the national water-cooler to cluck, whinny and chortle about how chubby and lackluster the woman turned out to be.

    Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011

  • The characters seem too tall relative to the water-cooler and rocket launcher.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Would you like to give me some stylistic feedback? 2009

  • But the results could cast some cold water on the theory that social-networking services like Twitter are forces for driving more viewers to live shows by creating an instant water-cooler effect.

    Oscar's Big Night Comes Up Short Sam Schechner 2011

  • I'm sorry that when those pictures were found and published by the sleazy, greasy little websites that feel they're performing some kind of public service by doing crap like this, everybody got together around the national water-cooler to cluck, whinny and chortle about how chubby and lackluster the woman turned out to be.

    Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011

  • I'm sorry that when those pictures were found and published by the sleazy, greasy little websites that feel they're performing some kind of public service by doing crap like this, everybody got together around the national water-cooler to cluck, whinny and chortle about how chubby and lackluster the woman turned out to be.

    Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011

  • I'm sorry that when those pictures were found and published by the sleazy, greasy little websites that feel they're performing some kind of public service by doing crap like this, everybody got together around the national water-cooler to cluck, whinny and chortle about how chubby and lackluster the woman turned out to be.

    Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011

  • I'm sorry that when those pictures were found and published by the sleazy, greasy little websites that feel they're performing some kind of public service by doing crap like this, everybody got together around the national water-cooler to cluck, whinny and chortle about how chubby and lackluster the woman turned out to be.

    Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011

  • "I guess I've just been trained to think of it as a water-cooler holiday," he said, "and you never want your girl telling her friends she got nothing for Valentine's Day."

    Feb. 14? Maybe It's About Love After All. Katherine Rosman 2012

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