meat keeper

plural meat keepers

1. An enclosed section of a refrigerator, intended to keep meat especially cool.

   If your refrigerator has a meat keeper, check the temperature in it to determine if it really is the coldest spot.

   1977, Barbara Bloch, The Meat Board Meat Book, page 99

   1 more example

   You put meat in it, but that's the only similarity between our meat keeper and everyone else's. Amana's meat keeper is really a "refrigerator within a refrigerator." Because it refrigerates while it stores.

   1967, Life, volume 62, number 12, page 5