- a public place that specializes in serving coffee and other refreshments and that sometimes provides informal entertainment.
- (in 17th- and 18th-century England) a similar establishment where groups met for a particular purpose, as for informal discussions or card playing.
- to engage in aimless talk or chitchat.
- to make remarks and gestures during play with the purpose of misleading opponents as to the cards one holds.
- a place where coffee is served, esp one that was a fashionable meeting place in 18th-century London
