stone-cold

\ ˈstōn-ˈkōld

Definition of stone-cold

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : completely cold stone-cold soup The weather was stone-cold and often gray, with a 20-mile-an-hour headwind scouring the backstretch.— Lorna Lentini —often used figurativelya stone-cold killer… his stone-cold calculation was that he could score more money more quickly with a bat and glove.— Scott Burton

2 US, informal : absolute, utter In the last decade, DNA tests have provided stone-cold proof that 69 people were sent to prison and death row in North America for crimes they did not commit.— Jim Dwyer et al.

stone-cold

adverb

Definition of stone-cold (Entry 2 of 2)

US, informal

: absolutely, utterly stone-cold sober Walter Anderson was a stone-cold handsome guy, a tall, powerfully built man with a thick head of wavy blond hair …— Edgar Allen Beam

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