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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]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
Derived terms
[edit]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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[edit]Finnish
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[edit]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. |
German
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Adjective
[edit]cooler
Adjective
[edit]cooler
- inflection of cool:
Portuguese
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English cooler.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]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.
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