kitchen table

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kitchen table (plural kitchen tables)

1. (figurative, attributive) Of a polyamory relationship, in which all the partners know each other and live or socialize casually together.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kitchen,‎ table.
   • 2024, Andrew Rausch, The Taking of New York City, Crime on the Screen and in the Streets of the Big Apple in the 1970s, page 53:

     Ferris had never been a professional writer, but he wrote the novel at his kitchen table in his spare time.

• solo polyamory