Coffee-housing

Anything you do to distract is called “coffee-housing,” and it’s against the rules. But there’s a lot of gray area. It’s illegal to talk during a game unless it’s something like asking the score

Frank during a poker game was accused of coffee-housing.

by spanglish3 April 16, 2009

coffeehousing

making gratutitous or trivial observations; gossiping while observing; kibbitzing.

He stood around the chess players, coffeehousing with the other kibbitzers.

by NaySay August 26, 2007