fridge

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A refrigerator; an appliance that keeps food cold.

   Please put the milk back in the fridge.

2. 2
   verb

   To put something in the fridge to keep it cold.

   She fridged the leftovers so they would stay fresh.

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.

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