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cool
verb- to calm down; to become less dangerous US
- Jim will last out the cops. He’ll go to the hustling bar a few streets away, until the street cools. — John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, p. 48, 1977
- to idle; to pass time doing nothing US
- I was coolin with Rick. — Boyz N The Hood, 1990
- to kill, or at least immobilise someone US
- — American Speech, p. 268, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
- to die US
- — Sally Williams, “Strong” Words, p. 137, 1994
- to please US
- “Do you like bop?” “It cools me,” he said. — Irving Shulman, The Short End of the Stick, p. 203, 1953
▶ cool it
to unwind, to calm down; to slow down, to ease off; to stop whatever activity you are engaged in US
Often used in the imperative.- Let’s cool it — Lavada Durst, The Jives of Dr. Hepcat, 1953
- “Man, we’d be sitting over there in the bar,” said one, “just coolin it around the pool table with a few beers[.]” — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 40, 1966
- [T]he black friends of the white power structure issued a pamphlet with the headline COOL IT, BABY! — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 90, 1968
- [S]he insisted on carrying [drugs] even after I warned her to cool it while I was heavy into my dealing changes. — Robert Bingham, Planted, Burnt, and Busted [The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories], p. 339, 1970
- “Cool it. The guard’s coming,” I whispered. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 263, 1978
- vMeaning we’ll have to cool it for a while, right? — Sex, Lies and Videotape, 1989
▶ cool it back
to become calm and composed under pressure US- — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint, p. 489, 1984
▶ cool your brains
to calm down TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1928- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ cool your heels
to rest UK, 1633- A half hour later Rocco walked into the amber glow of the old Juvie annex behind the Western District station house and found four kids cooling their heels[.] — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 591, 1992
▶ cool your jets
to calm down; to back off US, 1973- I’m just going to cool my jets, no matter what! — Beatrice Sparks (writing as “Anonymous”), Jay’s Journal, p. 62, 1979
- WURLITZER: How ‘bout Mallory? SCAGNETTI: Coolin’ her jets in a holding cell. — Natural Born Killers, 1994
▶ cool your liver
to drink alcohol BARBADOS- Then, later at night, the drum and kettle men would come around asking for something to cool their liver. — Advocate, 20 December 1998
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