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Definition of stone-cold
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: 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 figuratively a stone-cold killer… his stone-cold calculation was that he could score more money more quickly with a bat and glove.— Scott Burton
stone-cold
adverbDefinition 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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“Stone-cold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stone-cold. Accessed 5 Mar. 2021.
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