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cold
adjective- heartless, cruel US, 1849
- That’s pretty cold, ain’t it, lady? — Basic Instinct, 1992
- “If you do something to offend someone, then that’s cold, ” said Ryan Hoskin, 17, a senior at Stuart. — The Washington Post, 19 March 2002
- bad US, 1934
- And the bitch had cuffs on at the time, but I being the warm and he being the cold, I was able to get her to give up the source of her supplier which was all we wanted from the jump. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 131, 1973
- Cold means bad. — Orlando Sentinel, p. A13, 7 February 2001
- absolute US
- “They don’t want their wives to know they’re cold freaks,” she explains. “They bring their sex hang-ups to us.” — George Paul Csicsery (Editor), The Sex Industry, p. 9, 1973
- not capable of being traced to an owner US
Back-formed from HOT - “He could feel the bump of Dan’s service revolver, unwrapped and loaded now against his leg. A cold piece, its registry lost in a mountain of old records somewhere if they existed at all. — Robert Campbell, Boneyards, p. 276, 1992
- innocent of charges under which someone was convicted AUSTRALIA, 1944
Prison usage. - in gambling, unlucky US
- Duffy ended up being the only player shooting at table three because he was so cold he had become a plague on everybody’s luck. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 202, 1997
- without preparation; in ignorance US, 1896
Generally used quasi-adverbially. - used as a substitute for “cool” in any of its senses US
- The dress Mary’s wearing today is too cold. — Joan Fontaine et al., Dictionary of Black Slang, 1968
- — Columbia Missourian, p. 8A, 19 October 1998
- — Julian Johnson, Urban Survival, p. 258, 2003
- (used of a take-off from an aircraft carrier) failed, resulting in a crash US
- What had it been? A “cold-cat” shot, whatever that was, from a carrier. A crash at take-off, anyway, into the waters off Iwo-Jima[.] — Hank Searls, The Big X, p. 221, 1959
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