Coffee klatch
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A social gathering for conversation while drinking coffee.
"Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate."
- 1 To meet to gossip with friends, often over coffee. informal, intransitive
"The upshot of this incessant meeting and dining and coffee klatching is that women are in great demand."
Example
More examples"Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate."
Etymology
Partial calque of German Kaffeeklatsch.