Usually means: Sudden, severe drop in temperature.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word cold wave:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold wave: Merriam-Webster
  2. cold wave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cold wave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cold wave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cold wave: Vocabulary.com
  6. cold wave: Wordnik
  7. cold wave: Wiktionary
  8. cold wave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. cold wave: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Cold wave, cold wave: Dictionary.com
  11. Cold wave (music), Cold wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cold wave: Rhymezone
  13. cold wave: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cold wave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cold wave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cold wave: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See cold_waves as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cold wave)

noun:  A short period of very cold weather.
noun:  A permanent wave in the hair set by special solutions without the aid of any heating machine.
noun:  (uncountable, music) Alternative spelling of coldwave (“European post-punk music sub-genre”) [(music) A European style of post-punk music in the 1980s.]

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