bull session
| Dictionary: bull session |
| Idioms: bull session |
An informal discussion, as in College students love late-night bull sessions about anything and everything, from professors to poetry to politics. This expression originally referred to an exchange of opinions and anecdotes, including stories of sexual prowess, by men, and then came to be used more broadly. [Slang; c. 1915]
| WordNet: bull session |
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
(informal) an informal discussion (usually among men)
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