- a container for holding drinking water that is cooled and drawn off by a faucet or spigot.
- a drinking fountain in which water is cooled by mechanical refrigeration.
- a device for cooling and dispensing drinking water
- informal
- indicating the kind of informal conversation among office staff that takes place at such a dispenser
- indicating an event, television programme, etc, sufficiently controversial or otherwise noteworthy to provide subject matter for such conversations
