water cooler

Meanings

Noun

• A dispenser of cooled drinking water.
• A location in the workplace where employees gather to gossip.
• A type of cooling device that uses water as the heat transfer medium.

Adjective

• Of the nature of things discussed around a water cooler.

Related

Similar words

• water dispenser

Origin

• For the gossip sense, compare scuttlebutt, of similar origin.
• Attributive use of the noun.
• A category of cooling device.