What is "cooler"

Cool \Cool\, a. [Compar. Cooler; superl. Coolest.] [AS. c[=o]l; akin to D. koel, G. k["u]hl, OHG. chouli, Dan. k["o]lig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala. See Cold, and cf. Chill.]

1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

   Fanned with cool winds.
   --Milton.

2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.

   For a patriot, too cool.
   --Goldsmith.

3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.

4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.

   Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
   --Hawthorne.

6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

   He had lost a cool hundred.
   --Fielding.

   Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
   --Dickens.

   Syn: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.

Cooler \Cool"er\, n. That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.

If acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case.
--Arbuthnot.

2. Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

3. An alcoholic beverage containing liquor or wine plus a carbonated beverage, usually served with ice.

4. jail; -- usually used in the form the cooler. [slang]

4. an air conditioner.

1570s, "a vessel in which something is set to cool," agent noun from cool (v.). Meaning "insulated box to keep things cool" is from 1958. Slang meaning "jail" is attested from 1884.

a. (en-comparative of: cool) n. 1 (context countable English) Anything which cools. 2 (context countable English) An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping. 3 (context US countable or uncountable English) A mixed drink, especially one served chilled. 4 (context US slang English) A prison. 5 (context poker colloquial English) A cold deck. 6 (context countable English) A bouncer or doorman.

1. n. a refrigerator for cooling liquids [syn: ice chest]

2. an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice

3. a cell for violent prisoners [syn: tank]

A cooler is most commonly a cool box; a device, container, or room that cools or keeps cool.

Cooler may also refer to:

A cooler, portable ice chest, ice box, cool box, chilly bin (in New Zealand), or ' esky' (Australia) most commonly is an insulated box used to keep food or drink cool. Ice cubes are most commonly placed in it to help the things inside stay cool. Ice packs are sometimes used, as they either contain the melting water inside, or have a gel sealed inside that stays cold longer than plain ice (absorbing heat as it changes phase).

The portable ice chest was invented by Richard C. Laramy of Joliet, Illinois. On February 24, 1951, Laramy filed an application with the United States Patent Office for a portable ice chest (Serial No. 212,573). The patent (#2,663,157) was issued December 22, 1953.

The Coleman Company popularized the cooler with its initial offering of a galvanized cooler in 1954. Three years later, Coleman developed a process to make a plastic liner for coolers and jugs.

Coolers are often taken on picnics, and on vacation or holiday. Where summers are hot, they may also be used just for getting cold groceries home from the store, such as keeping ice cream from melting in a hot automobile. Even without adding ice, this can be helpful, particularly if the trip home will be lengthy. Some coolers have built-in cupholders in the lid.

They are usually made with interior and exterior shells of plastic, with a hard foam in between. They come in sizes from small personal ones to large family ones with wheels. Disposable ones are made solely from polystyrene foam (such as is a disposable coffee cup) about 2 cm or one inch thick. Most reusable ones have molded-in handles; a few have shoulder straps. The cooler has developed from just a means of keeping beverages cold into a mode of transportation with the Ride on Cooler. A thermal bag or cooler bag is very similar in concept, but typically smaller and not rigid.

In the United Kingdom the common name is a "cool-box". In the United States they are usually called a "cooler". In New Zealand they are generally called a "chilly bin", a generic trademark; the common Australian name of " Esky" is also a generic trademark.