Esky (insulated, portable ice chest/tucker box made of plastic, galvanised steel or styrofoam) — cooler, USA; chilly bin, New Zealand; cool box, UK.
A cooler, portable ice chest, ice box, cool box, chilly bin (in New Zealand), or esky (Australia) is an insulated box used to keep food or drink cool.
Esky is a brand of portable coolers, originally Australian, derived from the word "Eskimo". The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
Esky in British English
(ˈɛskɪ ) nounWord forms: plural -kies. (sometimes not capital) Australian trademark. a portable insulated container for keeping food and drink cool. Collins English Dictionary.
The “Esky” brand – capital letter – still exists. But the “esky” – lower case – has become the generic name.
In essence the difference is only in the name as they are the same thing. Whilst many people consider the word Esky to be a generic word it in fact is not. The word Esky refers to not just a cooler box but a particular brand or cooler box. Esky is an Australian brand of coolers own by a company named Willow.
cool bag, cool box (UK) cooler (US, Canada) esky (Australia)
Chilly bin – the Kiwi word for Esky.
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Cool your esky in advance if you can, by putting ice pack(s) in the night before you travel, so the esky is cool for the actual packing of food. Your food will then be going into a cold environment as opposed to warm one, and temperatures of food will stay cooler longer.
Ice in a cooler will last from 12 hours to 7 days. Premium hard coolers will last the longest at up to 7 days (or more). Some soft and styrofoam coolers will keep ice for less than 24 hours. Ice will keep in most hard coolers for 2 to 6 days.
How do you say cool in Australian slang? Australians say "cool" as "ripper" or "heaps good" in slang.
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a portable insulated container for keeping food and drink cool. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C20: from Eskimo.
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