1. cooler(n = noun.artifact) ice chest - a refrigerator for cooling liquids;
is a kind of icebox, refrigerator
Derived form verb cool1
2. cooler(n = noun.food) - an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice;
is a kind of beverage, drink, drinkable, potable
Derived form verb cool1
3. cooler(n = noun.artifact) tank - a cell for violent prisoners;
is a kind of cell, jail cell, prison cell
1. That which cools, or abates heat or excitement. [1913 Webster]
"If acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case." [1913 Webster]
2. Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc. [1913 Webster]
3. An alcoholic beverage containing liquor or wine plus a carbonated beverage, usually served with ice. [PJC]
4. jail; -- usually used in the form
5. an air conditioner. [PJC]
cooler, n.
1 a vessel in which a thing is cooled.
2 US a refrigerator.
3 a long drink, esp. a spritzer.
4 sl. prison or a prison cell.
N refrigerator, refrigeratory, frigidarium, cold storage, cold room, cold laboratory, icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox, cooler, damper, polyurethane cooler, wine cooler, freezer, deep freeze, dry ice freezer, liquid nitrogen freezer, refigerator-freezer, freezing mixture, ice, ice cubes, blocks of ice, chipped ice, liquid nitrogen, dry ice, dry ice-acetone, liquid helium.