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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cool it en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal) Calm down, relax, take a time out.
    • We did tell him to cool it but he just got more and more irate.
    • MCDERMOTT: Oh my God, Bateman, you want me to fry you up some fucking potato pancakes? Some latkes? BATEMAN: No, just cool it with the antisemitic remarks. 2000, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner, American Psycho:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cool, it.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cools it Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
cooled it Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cooled it Tense=Past lexicographic
cooling it Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

cool one's jets