Etymology tree
English cool
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English cooler
From cool + -er.
Meanings
(comparative, form-of) comparative form of cool: more cool
Etymology tree
English cool
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English cooler
From cool + -er.
Meanings
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:
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. 2007 January 1, Karen Crouse, “With Wild-Card Spot Clinched, Jets Can Finally Talk Playoffs”, in The New York Times:
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:
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:
(Canada, South-Africa, countable, uncountable) A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.
They served wine coolers in the afternoon.
(Philippines, countable) samalamig 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)
(India, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis) Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler.
About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap. 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
(US, slang) A bouncer or doorman.
(colloquial) A cold deck.
A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
(obsolete, slang) A final glass of porter after a session drinking spirits and water.
(archaic, slang) A 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:
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