different between fridge vs icebox

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /f??d??/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Etymology 1

The noun is a clipping of refrigerator, perhaps influenced by the Frigidaire brand of refrigerators, or frigerator (“(dated) refrigerator”). The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

fridge (plural fridges)

1. (informal) A refrigerator. [from 1920s]

Alternative forms

• 'fridge
• frig (dated)

Derived terms

• fridge-freezer
• fridgeful
• fridgeless
• fridge magnet

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Verb

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

1. (transitive, informal) To place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate.

Etymology 2

From fridge (“to place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill”), alluding to “women in refrigerators”, a phrase coined by the American comic book writer Gail Simone, who criticized a plot point in Green Lantern (volume 3, issue 54, 1994) in which Kyle Rayner, the Green Lantern, comes home to discover that the villain Major Force has murdered his girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt and left her body for him to find in the refrigerator.

Verb

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

1. (transitive, fandom slang) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s).

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Etymology 3

Probably imitative of the sound of chafing or rubbing.

Verb

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

1. (transitive, archaic, chiefly Britain, dialectal) To chafe or rub (something).
2. (intransitive, obsolete)
   1. To chafe or rub.
   2. Synonym of fidge (“to jostle or shake; to fidget, to fig, to frig”)

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References

Further reading

• refrigerator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Women in Refrigerators on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• ice-box

Etymology

From ice +? box.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???sb?ks/

Noun

icebox (plural iceboxes)

1. A box or compartment containing ice, typically used to keep provisions cool. [from 19th c.]
2. (Britain) A compartment in a refrigerator that is colder than the rest of the refrigerator and is used as a freezer.
3. (US, dated) A refrigerator. [from 20th c.]
4. (US, slang) A prison. [from 20th c.]
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 53:

     ‘The sister ran after them and brought them back and had Owen heaved into the icebox.’

5. (US, slang) A morgue.

Translations

Synonyms

• cool box
• cooler
• coolbox
• chilly bin (New Zealand)
• esky (Australia)

Further reading

• icebox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

icebox (not comparable)

1. agreeable, awesome. (as a superlative of cool)

   • BALOWSKI: Yes, that's absolutely icebox! See you later, Ford Anglia!