cold one

noun

cold one

noun
1

Idiomatic, Informal A beer; usually, a cold beer straight from a refrigerator or cooler.

  • I'm going to crack open a cold one.
  • They sat in a booth near the door and drank the first cold ones of the evening while watching three impassioned pinballers dickering with flashing, promising, tilting machines.1981, Jack Cady, Singleton:
Related terms
beer bottle, beer can, draft

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