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power coffee en · NOUN

Etymology

From power + coffee.

Meanings

1. (idiomatic) A working session or seminar at which important discussions may be held, and important decisions made, over servings of coffee or at a coffeehouse.
   • In Senator Barbara Mikulski's office in the Hart Building—her hideaway, as she called it—china cups were set out for a Senate tradition—a “power coffee” for new women members, hosted by the woman known as the “dean” of Senate women. 2020, Joni Ernst, Daughter of the Heartland: My Ode to the Country That Raised Me:
   • Then she took part in the leadership elections and attended a "power coffee" with other female senators hosted by Democratic senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. 2010, Terence Samuel, The Upper House - A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Senate:
   • Oh, I'll come back. I'll take a meeting. I'll have a power coffee. 1990, Wendy Wasserstein, Bachelor Girls, page 162:
   • Women senators gathered in Febrary 2003 at a “power coffee” hosted by Senators Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas. 2014, Chuck McCutcheon, Congress A to Z:

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power lunch