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cooler
noun- a jail or prison US, 1872
- I was in cooler with poor Spick husbands for 30 mins. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 326, 1 October 1951
- [H]e was swinging by his belt from the windowbars of the courthouse cooler. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 150, 1952
- You sure you want to mix it with a guy who has been in the cooler — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 71, 1953
- “Any analysis, any time spent in any other institutions?” “Well, counting state and county coolers.” — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 44, 1962
- I didn’t know you were out of the cooler yet, Dally. — S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967
- Your mate can start by getting him out of the cooler pronto! — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- While Gigi cooled his heels in the cooler, a private detective named Whelan, a retired homicide cop, was out working on his behalf. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 214, 1973
- a cell used for solitary confinement; a segregation unit US, 1899
- This little scuffle cost me my fifteen days off for good behavior and caused me to get tossed in the cooler. — Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues, p. 28, 1956
- — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 259, 1957
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 40, 1996
- an infirmary US
Where one’s social activities are “put on ice.” - — Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor, p. 17, 23 August 1983
- a morgue US
- — Sally Williams, “Strong” Words, p. 137, 1994
- a silencer attached to a hand gun US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 795, 1962
- a cigarette laced with cocaine US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- a stacked deck of cards used by a cheat US, 1935
- I don’t care how smart you were, Joe could set up a cooler [stacked deck] in front of you and you’d never spot it. — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 215, 1973
- — Robert C. Prus and C.R.D. Sharper, Road Hustler, p. 169, 1977
- — Michael Dalton, Blackjack, p. 40, 1991
- in horse racing, a horse that is not expected to win the race US, 1935
- — Dan Parker, The ABC of Horse Racing, p. 145, 1947
- a lightweight cotton blanket put on a horse after a warm-up US
- — George Sullivan, Harness Racing, p. 102, 1964
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