Meanings
nounpower lunch (plural power lunches)
plural power lunches
- idiomaticA working lunch at which bosses make business decisions or hold important discussions.
Difficult as it is to recollect today, tiki was a highbrow phenomenon: Trader Vic’s in the Washington, D.C., Hilton, for instance, became a famed venue for mid-century power lunches.
2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic
Origin
Coined by American editor and author Lee Eisenberg in 1979, in the Esquire article America’s Most Powerful Lunch.
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