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cool

1. mod. unabashed; unruffled; relaxed. (see also keep one’s cool, lose one’s cool.) She is totally cool and easygoing.

2. mod. good; excellent. This is a really cool setup!

3. mod. [of music] mellow; smooth. This stuff is so cool, I’m just floating.

4. mod. no less than [some amount of money]. She cleared a cool forty thousand on the Wilson deal.

5. in. to die; to become cold after death. (Medical euphemism.) We were afraid that he would cool.

See:

• a cool customer
• a cool head
• be as cool as a cucumber
• been keeping cool
• been keeping cool?
• blow (one's) cool
• blow cool
• blow one’s cool
• blow one's cool
• cool
• cool (one's) jets
• cool as a cucumber
• Cool bananas!
• Cool beans!
• cool cat
• cool customer
• cool down
• cool head
• cool heels
• cool it
• Cool it!
• cool off
• cool one's heels
• cool out
• cool reception
• cool someone out
• cool your jets!
• cool, calm, and collected
• cooled out
• cooling-off period
• house cooling party
• How strange, etc. is that?
• I'm cool
• keep a cool head
• keep cool
• keep one’s cool
• keep one's cool
• keep your breath to cool your porridge
• lose cool
• lose one’s cool
• lose one's cool
• play it cool
• save one's breath