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Definition of icebox in English: iceboxnoun ˈʌɪsbɒksˈaɪsˌbɑks 1A chilled box or cupboard for keeping something cold, especially food. Example sentencesExamples - Beryl spit out a mouthful of kibble and hid behind the antique icebox that never had any ice.
- In my nightmares, I hid in an icebox, but they found me anyway.
- A good skipper will have a plentiful supply of bottled water in the icebox, but it is as well to check before leaving port that he had laid in enough to last the day.
- The cupboards all matched, unlike Toni and Carina's mismatched, random cupboards and iceboxes.
- The icebox only consisted of a wooden box with ice surrounding it.
- I praised his courage, because it's not easy to carry the heavy icebox up to the top of mountain.
- Griffith ignored him and opened one of the iceboxes at the corner of the tiny kitchen.
- ‘He's against it,’ replied Coolidge coolly as he reached in the icebox for a beer.
- Reaching down, he opened an icebox, and then brought up a slab of meat.
- Against the back of this room was a cupboard for storage, a stove, and an icebox.
- She looked around the small kitchen before she opened the cabinets and the icebox and saw that they were empty.
- What did you think I was practicing for, when Dad needs extra ice for the icebox?
- The icebox is a 54-quart portable cooler that fits beneath the companionway steps.
- Nobody is kicking down your door, confiscating your icebox and saying you can't drink into the wee hours.
- I'm already thirsty for another frosty cool one from Hardway's icebox.
- Evil slams down the piano, and grabs the icebox.
- She then offered to help him carry the icebox where the fishes were.
- 1.1British A compartment in a refrigerator for making and storing ice.
Example sentencesExamples - Marcia poured her diet coke into a glass and she pulled the icebox out of the small refrigerator and put a few in.
- He stood beside the fridge with the icebox in his hand, looking a little dumb.
- Have been inspired by the immensely satisfying experiencing of defrosting the icebox on Sunday.
- Store your vermouth in the icebox so that it is always cold.
- Rufie actually made one of her famous icebox cakes in honour of my arrival.
- 1.2US dated A refrigerator.
Example sentencesExamples - May, could you please get some eggs out of the icebox?
- People might have had iceboxes, but the very first home ‘fridges’ were not invented until 1913 and not mass-produced until 1939.
- How about a refrigerator that goes back to the old icebox concept and stores coolness in a block of frozen material during certain hours?
- But in other parts of the world, consumers with small iceboxes chug their milk from a rectangular drink box kept in the pantry.
- While the pie was baking, she removed some vegetables and meat from the icebox to prepare for dinner.
Definition of icebox in US English: iceboxnounˈīsˌbäksˈaɪsˌbɑks 1A chilled box or cupboard for keeping something cold, especially food. Example sentencesExamples - A good skipper will have a plentiful supply of bottled water in the icebox, but it is as well to check before leaving port that he had laid in enough to last the day.
- Nobody is kicking down your door, confiscating your icebox and saying you can't drink into the wee hours.
- I'm already thirsty for another frosty cool one from Hardway's icebox.
- I praised his courage, because it's not easy to carry the heavy icebox up to the top of mountain.
- Beryl spit out a mouthful of kibble and hid behind the antique icebox that never had any ice.
- ‘He's against it,’ replied Coolidge coolly as he reached in the icebox for a beer.
- She then offered to help him carry the icebox where the fishes were.
- What did you think I was practicing for, when Dad needs extra ice for the icebox?
- The cupboards all matched, unlike Toni and Carina's mismatched, random cupboards and iceboxes.
- She looked around the small kitchen before she opened the cabinets and the icebox and saw that they were empty.
- Griffith ignored him and opened one of the iceboxes at the corner of the tiny kitchen.
- In my nightmares, I hid in an icebox, but they found me anyway.
- Evil slams down the piano, and grabs the icebox.
- The icebox is a 54-quart portable cooler that fits beneath the companionway steps.
- Reaching down, he opened an icebox, and then brought up a slab of meat.
- Against the back of this room was a cupboard for storage, a stove, and an icebox.
- The icebox only consisted of a wooden box with ice surrounding it.
- 1.1US dated A refrigerator.
Example sentencesExamples - While the pie was baking, she removed some vegetables and meat from the icebox to prepare for dinner.
- May, could you please get some eggs out of the icebox?
- People might have had iceboxes, but the very first home ‘fridges’ were not invented until 1913 and not mass-produced until 1939.
- But in other parts of the world, consumers with small iceboxes chug their milk from a rectangular drink box kept in the pantry.
- How about a refrigerator that goes back to the old icebox concept and stores coolness in a block of frozen material during certain hours?
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