cooler

cool +‎ -er

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːl.ə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -uːlə(ɹ)

cooler (plural coolers)

1. Anything which cools.
   • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], OCLC 756901661:

     If acid Things were used only as Coolers, they would not be so proper in this Case.

2. An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
3. A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
4. (Canada, South Africa, countable or uncountable) A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.

   Coordinate terms: alcopop, malternative

   They served wine coolers in the afternoon.

5. (Philippines, countable) samalamig
6. (US, slang) A prison.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

     About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap.

7. (US, slang) A bouncer or doorman.
8. (poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.

• (insulated box)
  • car fridge
  • cool bag, cool box (UK)
  • chilly bin (New Zealand)
  • esky (Australia)
  • ice chest

cooler

1. comparative form of cool: more cool

   He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts.

• cooler heads must prevail
• cooler heads prevail
• cooler heads will prevail

• recool

From English cooler.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːler/, [ˈkuːle̞r]

cooler

1. cooler (chilled mixed drink)

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cooler

1. comparative degree of cool

cooler

1. inflection of cool:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural