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Cooler
Definitions
- 1 comparative form of cool: more cool comparative, form-of
"He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts."
- 1 A surname from German.
- 1 Anything which cools.
"If acid Things were used only as Coolers, they would not be so proper in this Case."
- 2 a refrigerator for cooling liquids wordnet
- 3 An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
"While Brown distracted the usually hyperfocused Mangini, safety Kerry Rhodes and linebackers Eric Barton and Jonathan Vilma grabbed a cooler of Gatorade and surreptitiously assumed their positions according to plan."
- 4 a cell for violent prisoners wordnet
- 5 A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
"He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him."
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- 6 an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice wordnet
- 7 A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice. Canada, South-Africa, countable, uncountable
"They served wine coolers in the afternoon."
- 8 samalamig drink (sweet chilled beverage, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with either shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls) Philippines, countable
- 9 Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler. India, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis
- 10 A prison. US, slang
"About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap."
- 11 A bouncer or doorman. US, slang
- 12 A cold deck. colloquial
- 13 A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
- 14 A final glass of porter after a session drinking spirits and water. obsolete, slang
Etymology
From cool + -er.
From cool + -er.
Americanized spelling of German Kühler.
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