Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An insulated chest or box into which ice is placed, used for cooling and preserving food.
- n. A refrigerator.
Wiktionary
- n. UK A compartment in a refrigerator that is colder than the rest of the refrigerator and is used as a freezer.
- adj. agreeable, awesome. (as a superlative of cool)
WordNet 3.0
- n. white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
Etymologies
- From ice + box. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I started two days ago, emptying and filling the tray again - not continuously, just when I had the chance - and now my icebox is full of cute and slightly menacing Halloween ice cubes!”
“The icebox was a refrigerator that looked almost the same as the one at Justin's house back in the home timeline, except that one wasn't pink.”
“Even what's referred to as the icebox of the nation, International Falls, had its warmest March ever.”
“It may be too late to sway your vote for the presidential election, but Philadelphia Sculptors, a local coalition of artists, has put this show together in the Crane Arts Building in a room ironically called the icebox to bring consciousness to the topic in a new and profound way.”
“Maybe this is just a sign of my middle age, but I still use terms like "icebox" even though the thing in the kitchen that keeps food cold isn't technically a box with a block of ice in the top.”
“The example they used was the old fashioned "icebox".”
“Then the Chairman turns to something truly important: the freezing cold temperatures in our "icebox," noting correctly that we are cheering the fact that the AC here is crapped out.”
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“I get funny looks if I say "icebox" for refrigerator; I don't know if that's a dialect difference or a generational difference.”
“Zundfolge: My father called the refrigerator the "icebox" and his stereo system the "vic" short for Victrola.”
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“Beitelheim, the esteemed but scumbaggy child psychiatrist believed that autism was caused by "icebox" mothers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘icebox’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Words that make you sound old.
Just a fun list of words I am building that make you sound old.
icebox, bread box, touch tone phone, tit for tat, five and dime, groovy, channel changer, film, cassette player, VCR, record, dial tone and 7 more...
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C is for Cookie
chocolate chip, sugar, butter, oatmeal, peanut butter, pinwheel, snickerdoodle, shortbread, butterscotch, refrigerator, icebox, Girl Scout and 42 more...
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Dead (or dying) English Words
Inspired by the an old New York Times article and the Dictionary of Dying Danish Words list here on Wordie.
chorine, terpsichore, motorcar, motoring, centigrade, maven, tautology, pleonasm, contrariwise, spatchcock, mascaron, miasma and 29 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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household
balustrade, porch swing, terrace, windowseat, foyer, breakfast nook, cellar, bay window, venetian blinds, canopy, hammock, hope chest and 69 more...
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I is for Interpol
My I Words
incognito, interpol, incarnadine, icebox, indeed, incubator, information, i heart, i can count to pu..., incognito mosquito, illegally blind, I want to go to t... and 6 more...
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beanie's Words
cattail, anon, saltate, parquet, bentonite, circumpolar, asterism, venal, three-line whip, sanguine, peregruzka, pshaw and 1 more...
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Box It Up
abox, bandbox, beatbox, boxboard, boxcar, boxful, boxlike, boxy, breadbox, cashbox, chatterbox, firebox and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for icebox.
bilby In your offhand, mocking way
you've invited me into your chest.
Inside: the blur that poses as your heart.
I'm supposed to go in with a torch
or maybe hot water bottles
& defrost it by hand
as one defrosts an old refrigerator.
It will shudder & sigh
(the icebox to the insomniac).
- Erica Mann Jong, 'Climbing You'. Aug 11, 2008