icebox

plural iceboxes · alternative ice-box

1. A box or compartment containing ice, typically used to keep provisions cool.First known use 19th c.
2. UKA compartment in a refrigerator that is colder than the rest of the refrigerator and is used as a freezer.
3. USdatedA refrigerator.First known use 20th c.

   Somebody's Heine is crowding my icebox / Somebody's cold one is giving me chills

   1994, “Say It Ain't So”, Rivers Cuomo (lyrics), performed by Weezer

4. USslangA city with a cold or snowy climate.

   I moved here from the icebox of the upper Midwest.

5. USslangA prison.First known use 20th c.

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

   1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 47

6. USslangA morgue.

alternative ice-box

1. not comparableslangagreeable, awesome. (as a superlative of cool)

   MIKE: Yeah, yeah, so. So we'll forget about the rent, we'll pay you another time, is that cool? BALOWSKI: Yes, that's absolutely icebox! See you later, Ford Anglia!

   1982, Alexei Sayle, The Young Ones