kaffeeklatsch

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"I get flown to whatever city I want," wrote a North Carolina college student, who goes by the name gurlnextdoor on the site's blog, a mix between an online support group and a kaffeeklatsch.

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  1. noun Variant of coffee klatch.

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  • The digest was a virtual kaffeeklatsch, with all the chummy camaraderie of an office and none of the backstabbing politics. —  Laura Lipmann - By a Spider's Tread
  • I have combed the schedule of events here without finding a single forum, workshop or kaffeeklatsch devoted to what John McCain and the Republican Party propose to do about America's short - and long-term economic challenges. —  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
  • Arriving one fall morning at a regular kaffeeklatsch of longtime residents - a mostly white group that once held court in a diner but, since it closed, has moved to a Mexican restaurant —  news | OS | http://www.ocala.com
  • Some do it by holding a kaffeeklatsch at Sweetness 7 on Grant, (because it has more urban hipster cred than Spot now.) —  Buffalo Pundit
  • Pirates and terrorists around the globe know that after each and every one of their depredations and acts of savagery, there will follow weeks, months, years of ladies 'kaffeeklatsch dithering. —  Victoria Advocate stories: News
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  1. German, from kaffee, coffee, + klatsch, from klatschen, chat, chatter.
 

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/ˈkɑfeɪklɑɑh/
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