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单词 water cooler
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water cooler

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noun

a container for holding drinking water that is cooled and drawn off by a faucet or spigot.
a drinking fountain in which water is cooled by mechanical refrigeration.

Origin of water cooler

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Words nearby water cooler

water closet, water clover, watercolor, watercolour, water-cool, water cooler, watercourse, watercraft, water crake, watercress, water cure
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British Dictionary definitions for water cooler

water cooler

noun

a device for cooling and dispensing drinking water

adjective water-cooler

informal
  1. indicating the kind of informal conversation among office staff that takes place at such a dispenserwater-cooler conversations
  2. indicating an event, television programme, etc, sufficiently controversial or otherwise noteworthy to provide subject matter for such conversationswater-cooler television; a water-cooler moment
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