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
modifier
2.
(informal)

indicating the kind of informal conversation among office staff that takes place at such a dispenser: water-cooler conversations
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

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