noun
Meaning 1
A refrigerator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fridge
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /fɹɪd͡ʒ/
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rhymes with -ɪdʒ
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CMU ARPABET: F R IH1 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A fat woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, derogatory, offensive
Examples
- The fridge protecting the snacks.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
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verb
Meaning 4
To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and motivate vengeance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
Topics: lifestyle
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verb
Meaning 5
To chafe or rub (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To chafe or rub.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 7
Synonym of fidge (“to jostle or shake; to fidget, to fig, to frig”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fidge
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: electric refrigerator
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: refrigerator, icebox
Narrower terms: deep-freeze, Deepfreeze, deep freezer, freezer, ice machine
History
Etymology
The noun is a clipping of refrigerator, perhaps influenced by the Frigidaire brand of refrigerators, or frigerator (“(dated) refrigerator”). The spelling is likely influenced by analogy with bridge, ridge, etc. The verb is derived from the noun. The fandom slang verb sense alludes to the phrase "women in refrigerators" coined by the American comic book writer Gail Simone. Simone was referencing a plot point in Green Lantern (volume 3, issue 54, 1994), in which the Green Lantern's girlfriend is murdered by a villain, and her body placed in a refrigerator for him to find.
Probably imitative of the sound of chafing or rubbing.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: soyuducu — refrigerator — see also refrigerator
- Azerbaijani: xolodelnik — refrigerator — see also refrigerator
- French: frigo — refrigerator — see also refrigerator
- Hungarian: frigó — refrigerator — see also refrigerator
- Marathi: फ्रिज (phrij) — refrigerator — see also refrigerator
- Polish: lodówka — refrigerator — see also refrigerator
- Scottish Gaelic: frids — refrigerator — see also refrigerator
- Spanish: frigo — refrigerator — see also refrigerator
- Spanish: refri — refrigerator — see also refrigerator
- Spanish: frigider — refrigerator — see also refrigerator