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cooler

cooler

9 4.4
A cold alcoholic drink made with wine and fruit juice served with ice
  • noun
  • /ˈkuːlər/
  • Archaic
translation icon : sangría
  • Bring some wine coolers.
  • wine coolers
  • drink wine coolers

Examples

  • There's some wine coolers if you want a drink.

  • He grabbed a few wine coolers from the fridge for our picnic by the lake.

  • It's just the wine coolers talking, man.

  • Too many wine coolers last night.

  • You get a Door County Raspberry Cooler as part of the fast pack.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Well, stay away from the wine coolers.

  • Hey, do you think that you could, um... buy us some, like, wine coolers?

  • There aren't enough wine coolers in the world to calm me down!

    Fiction book (2002)
  • You'll bring wine coolers.

  • At the party, we enjoyed refreshing wine coolers made with tropical fruit juice.

Synonyms

cocktail
vscooler
288 2.8

A cold drink made by mixing different kinds of alcohol and other ingredients

is specifically wine and fruit based and served over ice in larger glass
punch
vscooler
134 3.9

A cold mixed drink with fruit juice often served from a bowl

is usually for single servings over ice rather than bowl service
gin and tonic
vscooler
18 2.7

A cold drink made with gin and tonic water and served with ice and lime

uses wine and fruit juice rather than spirit and tonic mixers
daiquiri
vscooler
13 7.0

A cold cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon

is wine based and usually served over ice with fruit pieces
sangria
vscooler
12 4.3

A cold drink of red wine mixed with juice and pieces of fruit

is wine based and served over ice with fruit rather than spirits
spritzer
vscooler
11 6.1

A cold drink of wine mixed with sparkling water

often adds fruit juice and more fruit pieces and is sweeter
cobbler
vscooler
  • Archaic
1 8.2

A tall cold sweet drink made with wine or liquor and fruit

focuses on wine and fruit served over ice in a single glass

Compounds

5 3.0

A container filled with ice that keeps a wine bottle cold

water cooler
  • Informal
4 2.8

A place in an office where people talk informally

3 2.1

A machine that cools and gives drinking water

evaporative cooler
  • Specialized
5.3

A machine that uses water to cool air in hot, dry places

How Frozen

sorbet
16 2.7
slushie
  • US
4 2.0
milkshake
72 1.0
smoothie
39 2.0
cooler
  • Archaic
9 4.4
iced tea
65 1.0

Surface Forms

cooler singular
coolers plural

Morphology

cooler = cool (semi-transparent) = cool + er

While 'cooler' is derived from 'cool', the specific meaning of a chilled drink is not a standard derivation.

Etymology

Cooler for a drink comes from cool ('not warm') and the older name wine cooler for a chilled, light drink. So a cooler is a refreshing alcoholic drink served cold over ice.