power coffee

English

Etymology

From power +‎ coffee.

Noun

power coffee (plural power coffees)

1. A working session or seminar at which important discussions may be held, and important decisions made, over servings of coffee or at a coffeehouse.
   • 1990, Wendy Wasserstein, Bachelor Girls, page 162:

     Oh, I'll come back. I'll take a meeting. I'll have a power coffee.

   • 2010, Terence Samuel, The Upper House - A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Senate:

     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.

   • 2014, Chuck McCutcheon, Congress A to Z:

     Women senators gathered in Febrary 2003 at a “power coffee” hosted by Senators Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.

   • 2020, Joni Ernst, Daughter of the Heartland: My Ode to the Country That Raised Me:

     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.

Related terms

• power lunch