klatch

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I'm sure she's a blast to have at a coffee klatch or cocktail party, but that's not who I want sitting down with world leaders, or leading congress.

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  • Whether evoking the Hollies as he counts his gray hairs and wonders how to behave ( "Fight for You") or disembarking on a bluesy Animalistic groove in pursuit of irresistible, poisonous fruit ( "Ancient Love"), Romeo is as casually familiar and comforting as an informal front porch microbrew klatch. —  Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
  • It was also the year that a klatch of radical neighbors formed the Cooper Square Community Development Committee and Businessmen's Association to save their stretch of the Lower East Side from bulldozers. —  City Limits - Weekly Articles
  • They also received government contracts via earmarks from Murtha and other members of the PMA coffee klatch, Democratic Congressmen Jim Moran and Peter Visclosky.
  • Police coffee klatch improves department's public image.
  • - "I think operating systems are kind of an old way to think of the world," Google cofounder Sergey Brin told a klatch of reporters after the Mountain View ad agency's song and dance routine to announce its new browser, Chrome. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
 

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  1. German Klatsch, from klatschen, to gossip, make a sharp noise, of imitative origin.
 

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