cooler

CEFRB1

/ˈkuː.lə(ɹ)/

noun

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At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

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

In context

He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts.
They served wine coolers in the afternoon.
If acid Things were used only as Coolers, they would not be so proper in this Case.

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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...
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
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
About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap.
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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From cool + -er.