bull session

English

Etymology

From bull(shit) +‎ session.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bull session (plural bull sessions)

  1. (idiomatic) An informal discursive group discussion, often one where politics, economics or current events are discussed.
    • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 217:
      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.
    • 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom‎[1], →ISBN:
      "We had the usual bull sessions about solving the world's problems or what would be the result of something," recalls Breidbart.
    • 2008 February 15, Megan McArdle, “Piracy: a symphony of spontaneous order”, in The Atlantic‎[2]:
      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.
    • 2018 November 30, Elizabeth Lopatto, “Why so many people think Elon Musk is a hero — or a villain”, in The Verge‎[3]:
      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.

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