cooler
See also: Cooler
English edit
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cooler (plural coolers)
- 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:
- If acid Things were used only as Coolers, they would not be so proper in this Case.
- An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
- A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
- (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.
- (Philippines, countable) A serving of samalamig.
- (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.
- (US, slang) A bouncer or doorman.
- (poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.
- (poker) A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
- (slang, obsolete) A final glass of porter after a session drinking spirits and water.
Synonyms edit
- (insulated box)
- car fridge
- cool bag, cool box (UK)
- chilly bin (New Zealand)
- esky (Australia)
- ice chest
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Translations edit
anything which cools
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insulated bin or box to keep food cold while picnicking or camping
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Adjective edit
cooler
- comparative form of cool: more cool
- He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts.
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cooler
- cooler (chilled mixed drink)
Declension edit
Inflection of cooler (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | cooler | coolerit | ||
genitive | coolerin | coolerien coolereiden coolereitten | ||
partitive | cooleria | coolereita coolereja | ||
illative | cooleriin | coolereihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | cooler | coolerit | ||
accusative | nom. | cooler | coolerit | |
gen. | coolerin | |||
genitive | coolerin | coolerien coolereiden coolereitten | ||
partitive | cooleria | coolereita coolereja | ||
inessive | coolerissa | coolereissa | ||
elative | coolerista | coolereista | ||
illative | cooleriin | coolereihin | ||
adessive | coolerilla | coolereilla | ||
ablative | coolerilta | coolereilta | ||
allative | coolerille | coolereille | ||
essive | coolerina | coolereina | ||
translative | cooleriksi | coolereiksi | ||
abessive | cooleritta | coolereitta | ||
instructive | — | coolerein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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cooler
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cooler
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English cooler.
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cooler m (plural coolers)
- (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
Further reading edit
- “cooler” in Dicionário inFormal.