Meaning

2 senses
  1. A criminal investigation that has not been solved after a considerable time but remains on the books and may be reopened when new evidence appears.

  2. (literally)A refrigerated display case used for selling items that are kept cold.

    Cold Case

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Cold cases do get solved.

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 1
an old unsolved case:

Forms

plural: cold cases
Singularcold case
Pluralcold cases

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

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