cooler

From cool +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.lə(ɹ)/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈku.lɚ/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʉː.lə(ɹ)/
• 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. , London: J Tonson , →OCLC:

     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, premix

   They served wine coolers in the afternoon.

5. (Philippines, countable) 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)
6. (India, countable) Short for air cooler; evaporative cooler; desert cooler; swamp cooler
7. (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.

8. (US, slang) A bouncer or doorman.
9. (poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.
10. (poker) A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
11. (slang, obsolete) A final glass of porter after a session drinking spirits and water.

• (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/,
• Rhymes: -uːler

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

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• cúler

Unadapted borrowing from English cooler.

• Rhymes: -uleʁ, -ulɛɾ
• Hyphenation: coo‧ler

cooler m (plural coolers)

1. (Brazil) cooler (insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping)

   Synonyms: geleira, caixa térmica

• “cooler”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024