cooler
/ˈku.lɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.96 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
noun
A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
noun
A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.
Canadian usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
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)
Countable
noun
Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler.
Indian usage; Countable
Example Sentences
- "If acid Things were used only as Coolers, they would not be so proper in this Case."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "They served wine coolers in the afternoon."
- "About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Kühler
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈku.lɚ/
- British English: /ˈkuː.lə(ɹ)/
Usage
- Canadian usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Indian usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Colloquial
- Obsolete