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[acob] 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.
   • 2007 January 1, Karen Crouse, “With Wild-Card Spot Clinched, Jets Can Finally Talk Playoffs”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2018 August 1, Michael Nedelman, “Ice cream salesman’s wife and mother suffocated by dry ice in car”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Two women were found unresponsive in a car along with the likely culprit – four coolers of dry ice – Friday morning in Pierce County, Washington, CNN affiliate KOMO reports.

3. A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
   • 2008 June 15, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Up in Smoke”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     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.

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) Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːlər/

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• Hyphenation: coo‧ler

cooler

1. comparative degree of cool

Borrowed from English cooler.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːler/, [ˈkuːle̞r]
• 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

• 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), 2006–2025