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Meaning of cool it | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

Calm down, relax, take a time out.
informal
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cool, it.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

cool off cool one's heels cool one's jets cool out coole cooled