wine cooler
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- noun
- /waɪn ˈkuːlər/
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enfriador de vino
- She placed the chilled bottle of white wine in the wine cooler to keep it cold during the picnic.
- drinking a wine cooler
- built-in wine cooler
- get a wine cooler
Examples
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- Got your wine cooler, Dad.
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Grab a wine cooler, ladies, we're going in.
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I had my first wine cooler here.
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- Can l get you another wine cooler?
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Go over there and get me another wine cooler.
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Is that a wine cooler?
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I need a wine cooler.
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I bought you guys wine coolers.
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Too many wine coolers last night.
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- You drank all my wine coolers?
Synonyms
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A portable box that keeps food and drinks cold with ice
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A container that holds ice to keep drinks cold
A container filled with ice that keeps a wine bottle cold
How Cold
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a container used to keep a bottle of wine chilled' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'wine' (the item to be chilled) with 'cooler' (a container or device for keeping things cold). This noun–noun compounding pattern (purpose/container) is common cross-linguistically and would be predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Wine cooler comes from the simple picture of a bottle of wine sitting in a bucket of ice that cools it. So the name joins wine and cooler, and today it means 'a container to keep wine cold'.