| 单词 | coffee cooler |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoffee cooler coffee cooler n. U.S. slang a contemptuous name applied to an idler, a shirker. ΚΠ 1876 J. H. Bradley Jrnl. in Contrib. Hist. Soc. Montana (1896) II. 162 We are assured that we shall easily fill up the complement in spite of the cold water cast upon our efforts by the ‘coffee-coolers’ as the shiftless, superannuated loungers about camp are very aptly termed. 1890 Congress. Rec. 30 Apr. App. 106 Those who..delight in characterizing the old soldiers as ‘coffee coolers’, ‘bounty jumpers’, and ‘bummers’. 1895 Congress. Rec. 18 Jan. 1129/2 I am opposed to giving pensions to deserters, and ‘coffee-coolers’, and bounty jumpers, and camp followers. 1939 H. H. Smith We pointed them North xvii. 177 The government..drawed up a treaty fixing the new boundaries for the reservation,..and they got some of these coffee-coolers to consent to it. < as lemmas |
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