Deepfreeze

American

[deep-freez, -freez] / ˈdipˌfriz, -ˈfriz /

Trademark.

a brand of deep freezer.

deepfreeze British

/ ˌdiːpˈfriːz /

noun

a type of refrigerator in which food, etc, is stored for long periods at temperatures below freezing
storage in or as if in a deepfreeze
informal a state of suspended activity

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verb

(tr) to freeze or keep in or as if in a deepfreeze

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And a refrigeration company once named Kim Novak “Miss Deepfreeze,” an honor that doubtless appealed to Alfred Hitchcock; you could plausibly argue that “Vertigo” was one long thaw.

From The New Yorker

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