Usually means: Extremely cold, often unexpectedly so.
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  1. key-cold: Merriam-Webster
  2. key-cold: Wordnik
  3. key-cold: Wiktionary
  4. Key-cold: Dictionary.com
  5. Key-cold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. key-cold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Key-cold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. key-cold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. Key-cold: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. key-cold: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Key-cold: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (key-cold)

▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.

Similar:
clay-cold, ice-cold, stone cold, cold, icecold, frigid, coldhearted, cold-blooded, exanimous, lifeless, more...

Opposite:
key-warm, key-hot, key-lukewarm

Types:
major, minor, more...

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Similar:
clay-cold, ice-cold, stone cold, cold, icecold, frigid, coldhearted, cold-blooded, exanimous, lifeless, more...

Opposite:
key-warm, key-hot, key-lukewarm

Types:
major, minor, more...



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