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cool off verb- to kill US
- They got a joint and the thieves there are afraid to do it because they’ll cool ’em off [kill them] if they catch them. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 28, 1972
- to calm down UK, 1887
- [T]he woman who says she cooled off her affair once “the excitement of being with a famous person had worn off[.]” — Guardian, 15 June 2003
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