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bull session
noun
an informal group discussion US, 1919- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 22, 1945
- 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. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 167, 1951
- The kids who come from tough families, who have fathers or brothers serving time someplace upstate, are much further advanced than the rest of us, and they learn us all they know in our bull sessions. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 36, 1955
- He said that when Kossmeyer came down the three of us ought to get together some night and have us a bull session. — Jim Thompson, The Kill-Off, p. 28, 1957
- Once a week, he said, a very few of the other people employed by the university dropped in at one another’s houses for a bull session. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 244, 1961
- For instance, the bullsessions: I found that half the things they talked about were over my head[.] — Robert Gover, Poorboy at the Party, p. 5, 1966
- As for the college audiences, they listened to me in the early ‘50’s because they were surprised that a comedian could have written term papers and wondered about the meaning of life in bull sessions. — Mort Sahl, Heartland, p. 103, 1976
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