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coffee-and-chat

coffee-and-chat

2.5
A relaxed meeting where people talk and drink coffee
  • noun
  • Informal
translation icon : charla con café
  • The office organizes a monthly coffee-and-chat to encourage team bonding.

Examples

  • Every Thursday, I meet my friends for a coffee-and-chat at the local café.

  • After the meeting, we had a coffee-and-chat to bond and share ideas.

  • He really did want to have coffee and chat.

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Synonyms

meeting
vscoffee-and-chat
∞ 1.0

A group of people who come together for a planned purpose or to be social

is specifically informal and social focused on casual talk and shared drinks
get-together
vscoffee-and-chat
  • Informal
46 1.9

A small informal meeting for people to talk and spend time together

is specifically about shared drinking and talking rather than any social gathering
chit-chat
vscoffee-and-chat
  • Informal
9 2.8

Short friendly talk about unimportant things

is an event for social talking rather than mainly trivial small talk
confab
vscoffee-and-chat
  • Informal
5 8.9

A short informal private talk between people

is an actual social meeting rather than only a private or casual talk
convo
vscoffee-and-chat
  • Informal
4 9.1

A short informal talk between people

is a meeting of people that includes shared refreshments not only talk
klatch
vscoffee-and-chat
  • Archaic
2 9.5

A small informal meeting where people talk, often with coffee

is more specifically about shared drinking and focused conversation
kaffeeklatsch
vscoffee-and-chat
  • Informal
1 8.9

A friendly meeting where people drink coffee and chat, often to gossip

is less about gossip and more neutral in tone
adda
vscoffee-and-chat
  • Indian
9.9

A relaxed friendly talk between people

is the nonregional general form used across cultures
confabulation
vscoffee-and-chat
  • Informal
8.2

An informal chat between people

is the social gathering where people meet not only a casual talk

How Formal

coffee-and-chat
  • Informal
2.5
chat
  • Informal
312 1.0

Surface Forms

coffee-and-chat singular
coffee-and-chats plural

Morphology

coffee-and-chat = coffee + chat (transparent) = coffee + chat

Direct composition of 'coffee' and 'chat' joined by 'and' yields an informal meeting to chat over coffee, which is predictable from the parts.

Etymology

The word coffee-and-chat is a simple combination of coffee and chat: coffee came into English from an old Arabic/Turkish word for the 'drink', and chat means 'friendly talk'. So a coffee-and-chat is an informal meeting to drink coffee and talk in a relaxed way.