bull session
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An informal discursive group discussion, often one where politics, economics or current events are discussed.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""We had the usual bull sessions about solving the world's problems or what would be the result of something," recalls Breidbart."
- "There's an old joke that I used to hear occasionally on British television shows: "It's not theft—it's socialism!" I couldn't help but think of it repeatedly as I read this paper on self-organizing institutional arrangements among pirates, which bears some disturbing similarities to an hours-long anarcho-capitalist bull session."
- "NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine ordered reviews of SpaceX and Boeing. Apparently this was planned before the whiskey-and-weed bull session on The Joe Rogan Experience."