Meaning

3 senses

  1. A dispenser of cooled drinking water.

    a device for cooling and dispensing drinking water

  2. (figuratively)A location in the workplace where employees gather to chat or gossip.

  3. A type of cooling device that uses water as the heat transfer medium.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. The water cooler is out of order.

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  2. Ziri had a bottle of water in the cooler.

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  3. The water cooler shattered.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

For the gossip sense, compare scuttlebutt, of similar origin.

For the gossip sense, compare scuttlebutt, of similar origin.

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Forms

plural: water coolers

Synonyms

1 synonyms
water dispenser

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
watchmanwatchwordwaterA1waterbedwatercolour

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