ical euphemism.) The patient cooled
during surgery. We were afraid that he
would cool.Cool bananas!Go to Cool beans!
Cool beans! and Cool bananas!exclam.
Wow! Cool beans, man. That’s great!
You got a car? Cool bananas!
cool, calm, and collectedmod. cool;un-
abashed. Albert is almost always cool,
calm, and collected. Before a race I am
anything but cool, calm, and collected.
cool catn. someone who is cool,usually a
male. Monty is a cool cat. I really like
him. There is a shortage of cool cats on
this turf.
cool downin. to calm down. Now, just
cool down. Chill, chill. Everything’s gonna
be real cool. When things cool down
around here, life will be much more live-
able.
cooled outmod. calm; unabashed. Te d
is a really cooled out kind of guy. When
she’s cooled out, she’s great.
coolern. jail. (Usually with the.) Do you
want to talk, or do you want to spend a lit-
tle time in the cooler? Let me outa this
cooler!
Cool it!exclam. Calm down! Take it easy!
Cool it! Come on, cool it, man!
cool offin. to calm down. Now, it’s all
right. Cool off! I knew things would cool
off eventually.
cool outin. to calm down; to relax. (See
also cooled out.) Now, just cool out,
man. This will pass. Everybody cooled
out after the emergency, and everything
was fine.
cool someone outtv. to calm someone; to
appease someone. Cool yourselves out,
you people. We gotta be sensible. TThe
manager appeared and tried to cool out
everybody, but that was a waste of time.
cooties[“kudiz] n. real or imagined lice.
Randy pulled back from me like I had
cooties or something. What’s wrong with
me? You have cooties, crotch-pheasants,
and bad breath. What do you expect?
cop 1. tv. to take or steal something. (Orig-
inally underworld.) Somebody copped
the statue from the town square. Who
copped the salt from this table? 2. n. a
theft. (Underworld.) They pulled the
cop in broad daylight. It was a lousy cop.
No skill. No finesse. 3. n. a police officer.
(From sense 1.) The cop wasn’t in any
mood to put up with any monkey business.
You call the cops. I’ve got enough trou-
ble. 4. tv. to arrest someone. (See also
copped.) The officer copped him and
read him his rights. They copped Sam
with the evidence right on him. 5. n. an
arrest. It was a smooth cop. No muss, no
fuss. The cop went off without a hitch
except for a few little insults.cop a dragtv. to smoke a cigarette. (See
also drag.) She kept going off to the john
to cop a drag. Smokers who have to leave
the office to cop a drag must cost this na-
tion billions each year.cop a fixtv. to obtain a dose of drugs.
She was gonna, like, die if she didn’t cop
a fix pretty soon. She carries her apps so
she can cop a fix whenever.cop a headtv. to become alcohol or drug
intoxicated. He was mad and depressed
and went home having decided to cop a
head. The two old codgers sat there cop-
ping a head, or trying to anyway.cop an attitudetv. to take a negative or
opposite attitude about something. (See
also tude.) Look, chum, don’t cop an at-
titude with me! I think you’re copping
an attitude. Not advised, man. Not ad-
vised.cop a pleatv. to plead guilty to a lesser
charge. Rocko copped a plea and got off
with a week in the slammer. I wanted to
cop a plea, but didn’t have the chance.copasetic[kop@”sEdIk] mod. agreeable; sat-
isfactory. (Originally black. Probably
from French.) Everything is copasetic.
Couldn’t be better. This is one fine co-
pasetic day.cop a squattv. to sit down. Hey, man!
Come in and cop a squat. Cop a squat
and crack a tube.Cool bananas!