kalgoorlie cooler noun a hessian-walled cabinet for keeping foodstuffs cool by evaporation AUSTRALIA After the West Australian mining town Kalgoorlie.
[Dinner] nowadays came in varying degrees of coldness out of the refrigerator or ice-chest or Kalgoorlie cooler, according to the degree of amenity the mistress of the house possessed. — Dymphna Cusack, PicnicRaces, p. 122, 1962