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cool it

cool it verb: calm down, relax, take a time out.

Verb

cool it (third-person singular simple present cools it, present participle cooling it, simple past and past participle cooled it)

  1. (informal) Calm down, relax, take a time out.
    • We did tell him to cool it but he just got more and more irate.
    • MCDERMOTT: Oh my God, Bateman, you want me to fry you up some fucking potato pancakes? Some latkes?
      BATEMAN: No, just cool it with the antisemitic remarks.2000, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner, American Psycho
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cool, it.
    Synonyms:
    cool one's jets

Synonyms of cool it

Forms of cool it

third-person singular presentcools it
present participlecooling it
past participlecooled it
pastcooled it

Questions about cool it

What does cool it mean?
Cool it means calm down, relax, take a time out.
What part of speech is cool it?
Cool it is a verb.
What is the past tense of cool it?
The past tense of cool it is cooled it.

Words near cool it in the dictionary

  1. cool heads must prevail
  2. cool heads prevail
  3. cool heads will prevail
  4. cool hunter
  5. cool hunters
  6. cool it
  7. cool jazz
  8. cool kid
  9. cool kids
  10. cool kids' table
  11. cool media

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