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cold

1. mod. [stopping something] suddenly and totally. I stopped cold—afraid to move further.

2. mod. dead. This parrot is cold—pifted!

3. mod. not good. The lecture was cold and dull.

4. mod. excellent. (Very cool.) That last pitch was cold, man.

See:

• (one's) blood runs cold
• a cold day in Hell
• a cold day in July
• a cold fish
• a cold piece of work
• a cold snap
• a stone cold fox
• Baby it’s cold outside
• be (as) cold as ice
• be as cold as ice
• be brought in from the cold
• be cold comfort
• be hot and cold
• be knocked out cold
• be left (out) in the cold
• blood run cold
• blow cold
• blow hot and cold
• break out in a cold sweat
• bring (someone) in from the cold
• bust ass cold
• catch a cold
• catch cold
• catch one's death (of cold)
• cold
• cold as a welldigger's ass
• cold blood
• cold call
• cold cash
• cold check
• cold coffee
• cold comfort
• cold enough for you?
• cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• cold feet
• cold feet, get
• cold fish
• Cold hands, warm heart
• cold one
• cold reading
• cold shoulder
• cold shower
• cold snap
• cold sober
• cold turkey
• cold, hard cash
• cold-shoulder
• come in from the cold
• down cold
• down cold, have
• Feed a cold and starve a fever
• feed a cold, starve a fever
• feel hot and cold
• freezing cold
• from my cold, dead hands
• get cold feet
• get knocked out cold
• get one’s nose cold
• give the cold shoulder
• go cold turkey
• grow cold
• hard cash
• have (something) down cold
• in a cold sweat
• in cold blood
• in cold storage
• in the cold light of day
• It'll be a cold day in hell
• kick cold
• kick cold turkey
• knock cold
• knock out
• leave cold
• leave in the cold
• leave one cold
• leave out in the cold
• leave someone cold
• make blood run cold
• make one's blood run cold
• out cold
• out in the cold
• pass out
• pour cold water on
• pour cold water on something
• quit (something) cold turkey
• Revenge is a dish best served cold
• run hot and cold
• so cold you could hang meat
• stone cold
• stone cold sober
• stone sober
• stop cold
• take a cold shower
• take cold
• throw cold water on
• when sneezes, catches a cold
• you'll catch your death of cold