Meaning & use
Cooler
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A container or device designed to keep food and drinks cold; informally, a jail or prison cell.
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They packed sandwiches and drinks into the cooler for the beach trip.
The suspect spent the night in the cooler before making bail the next morning.
A note on using this word
The slang meaning of "cooler" for a jail cell dates back to early 20th-century American criminal slang.
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