cooler

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Anything which cools.

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

2. 2
   noun

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

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.

   They served wine coolers in the afternoon.

5. 5
   noun

   A prison.

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

6. 6
   noun

   A cooling swim or dip in the water.

   1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados 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 […]

7. 7
   adj

   comparative form of cool: more cool

   He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts.

8. 8
   noun

   a refrigerator for cooling liquids

Etymology

Americanized spelling of German Kühler.