(cold-shoulders, cold-shouldering, cold-shouldered)
Note: The form 'cold-shoulder' is used for the verb.
1.
If one person gives another the ~, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
But when Gough looked to Haig for support, he was given the ~.
N-SING: usu the N
2.
If one person cold-shoulders another, they give them the cold-shoulder.
Even her own party considered her shrewish and nagging, and cold-shouldered her in the corridors.
VERB: V n