Usually means: Ignoring someone deliberately; social snub.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word cold shoulder:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder, the cold shoulder: Merriam-Webster
  2. the cold shoulder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cold shoulder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cold-shoulder, cold-shoulder, cold shoulder, the cold shoulder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: Vocabulary.com
  6. cold-shoulder: Wordnik
  7. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: Wiktionary
  8. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. cold shoulder: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: Dictionary.com
  11. Cold Shoulder (Adele song), Cold Shoulder (song), Cold Shoulder, Cold shoulder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: Rhymezone
  13. Cold Shoulder: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Cold Shoulder: The Word Detective
  17. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Cold shoulder: World Wide Words
  19. cold shoulder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cold-shoulder: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. cold-shoulder, cold shoulder: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. (the) cold shoulder: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. The Cold Shoulder, cold shoulder: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cold-shoulder as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cold shoulder)

noun:  (idiomatic) A deliberate act of disrespect; a slight or snub.
verb:  (idiomatic) To deliberately slight or snub someone.

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