skull session
1
7.5
- noun
- /skʌl ˈsɛʃən/
- Jargon
:
reunión informal
Examples
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Hate to break up the skull session.
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We got a skull session tomorrow at the Thick 'n' Rich.
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As far as I know, he's gathering all his guys for a skull session.
Fiction book (1999) -
The marketing team held a skull session to brainstorm new strategies for the upcoming campaign.
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During the skull session, the coach discussed the team's performance and outlined plans for improvement.
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Before the big game, the players gathered for a skull session to review their tactics and address any concerns.
Synonyms
73
1.0
The joining of two things to become one, like rivers or ideas
23
4.1
A short private meeting to talk about plans
5
3.4
A meeting where people share many new ideas without judging them
3
2.0
A conversation among several people about one topic to share ideas or make a decision
How Formal
- Formal
∞
3.0
36
2.2
∞
1.0
- Jargon
1
7.5
- Informal
23
4.1
- Informal
312
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
skull + session
The components 'skull' (head) and 'session' (meeting) provide a weak metaphorical cue that the meeting involves thinking, but the specific sense 'informal brainstorming/planning meeting' is not directly predictable from the literal parts. The use of 'skull' as a marker for brainstorming is idiomatic and culturally marked, so a B1 learner who knows the words would likely need prior exposure to reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Skull session comes from the image of people putting their heads together to think, with skull meaning head and session meaning meeting. One popular story says coaches and players would sit with their 'heads' together to study plays, so today skull session means 'an informal meeting to plan or solve problems'.