cooler

plural coolers

1. Anything which cools.

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

   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

2. An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.

   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.

   2018 August 1, Michael Nedelman, “Ice cream salesman’s wife and mother suffocated by dry ice in car”, in CNN

   1 more example

   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.

   2007 January 1, Karen Crouse, “With Wild-Card Spot Clinched, Jets Can Finally Talk Playoffs”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: car fridge, cool bag, cool box, chilly bin, esky, ice chest

3. A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.

   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.

   2008 June 15, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Up in Smoke”, in The New York Times

4. CanadaSouth AfricacountableuncountableA type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.

   They served wine coolers in the afternoon.

5. Philippinescountablesamalamig 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. IndiaabbreviationcountableellipsisEllipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler.
7. USslangA prison.

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

   1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

   1 more example

   ‘If you land in the cooler, I haven’t enough to bail you out and you’ll have to do time.’

   1961, Tom Mead, Killers of Eden, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 118

8. USslangA bouncer or doorman.
9. colloquialcard gamesA cold deck.
10. card gamesA loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
11. obsoleteslangA final glass of porter after a session drinking spirits and water.
12. archaicslangA cooling swim or dip in the water.

    That night this ungainly urchin, taking a cooler in one of the big irrigation canals, got laid hold of by an alligator and raised the most unearthly screech […]

    1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

1. comparativecomparative form of cool: more cool

   He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts.

plural Coolers

1. A surname from German.