freezer

[free-zer]

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noun

a refrigerator, refrigerator compartment, cabinet, or room held at or below 32°F (0°C), used especially for preserving and storing food.

a machine containing cold brine, ice, etc., for making ice cream, sherbet, or the like.

a person or thing that freezes or chills.

Origin of freezer

First recorded in 1835–45; freeze + -er¹

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Related Words for freezer

cooler, refrigerator

Examples from the Web for freezer

Contemporary Examples of freezer

And lo, Snowballs—underpants which can hold a flexible gel pack that you store in the freezer—was born.
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The trickiest items having been placed in the “freezer” to be addressed at a later date.
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The freezer is filled with meat, sides of beef and large pieces of lamb.
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Finally the guy gets fed up and throws the parrot in the freezer to punish him.
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August 12, 2014
After about an hour, he hears a faint tapping sound from inside the freezer and opens the door.
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Historical Examples of freezer

Put it into a freezer, and proceed as in the foregoing receipt.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Eliza Leslie
Then strain the liquid into a freezer, and proceed as for ice cream.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Eliza Leslie
Place the freezer into the pail, put in the paddle and cover the freezer tightly.
Desserts and Salads
Gesine Lemcke
Then strain and put in the freezer packed with salt and ice.
The Italian Cook Book
Maria Gentile
Finishing a bottle of beer, he took another from the freezer.
Planet of the Damned
Harry Harrison

British Dictionary definitions for freezer

freezer

noun

Also called: deepfreeze a device that freezes or chills, esp an insulated cold-storage cabinet for long-term storage of perishable foodstuffs

a former name for refrigerator

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Word Origin and History for freezer

1847 as the name of an item in ice-cream manufacture; from freeze (v.) + -er (1). As a household appliance, from 1945. Freezer burn attested from 1929.