Definition
A working session or seminar at which important discussions may be held, and important decisions made, over servings of coffee or at a coffeehouse.
Origins
From power + coffee.
In Context
- "Oh, I'll come back. I'll take a meeting. I'll have a power coffee."
- "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."
- "Women senators gathered in Febrary 2003 at a “power coffee” hosted by Senators Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas."
- "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."