0 a container like a box with a lid, used for keeping food and drinks cool:
1 a cold drink, usually of wine, fruit juice, and fizzy water (= with bubbles):
2 prison:
This kind of fraud could get you a few months in the cooler.
The guards claimed he had to be put in the cooler for his own safety.
If you get caught you must spend two weeks in the cooler in solitary confinement.
He spent 10 minutes in the cooler at the end of the first half after ignoring a warning from the referee.
She has no money to pay a fine and nobody to stay with the kids if she goes to the cooler.
Local cops said he was drunk and abusive and threw him in the cooler.
The player behaved himself for a few minutes before tripping Mark Cueto, earning himself a spell in the cooler.
The most aggressive hockey players spend the most time in the cooler.
