bull session
bull session noun: an informal discursive group discussion, often one where politics, economics or current events are discussed.
Noun
bull session (plural bull sessions)
- An informal discursive group discussion, often one where politics, economics or current events are discussed.
- For instance, if you were having a bull session in somebody’s room, and somebody wanted to come in, nobody’d let them in if they were some dopey, pimply guy.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 217
- "We had the usual bull sessions about solving the world's problems or what would be the result of something," recalls Breidbart.2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, →ISBN
Forms of bull session
| plural | bull sessions |
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Origin of bull session
From bull(shit) + session.
Questions about bull session
- What does bull session mean?
- Bull session means an informal discursive group discussion, often one where politics, economics or current events are discussed.
- What part of speech is bull session?
- Bull session is a noun.
- What is the plural of bull session?
- The plural of bull session is bull sessions.
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