fridge
A big machine in the kitchen that keeps food and drinks cold.
A large electric kitchen appliance used for keeping food and drinks cold so that they stay fresh.
To put food or drink in a fridge to make it cold or keep it fresh.
To put food or drink into a fridge so that it stays cold and fresh.
- Base: fridge
- Plural: fridges
- Base: fridge
- 3rd Person Singular: fridges
- Present Participle: fridging
- Past: fridged
- Past Participle: fridged
back of the fridge
1rear inside area of a fridge
The part inside a fridge that is farthest from the door and hard to see or reach.
- I found an old yogurt at the back of the fridge.
- Things always get lost at the back of the fridge in our house.
- Check the back of the fridge before you buy more butter.
fridge freezer
1combined fridge and freezer unit
A large kitchen machine that has both a fridge part and a freezer part in one unit.
- We bought a new fridge freezer for the flat.
- The fridge freezer is too big to fit through that door.
- Their old fridge freezer broke down in the middle of summer.
fridge magnet
1decorative magnet on a fridge
A small, often colorful magnet that you put on the door of a fridge, sometimes to hold notes or photos.
- They buy a fridge magnet from every city they visit.
- The shopping list is held up by a cat-shaped fridge magnet.
- I stuck your drawing on the fridge with a new fridge magnet.
in the fridge
1located inside a refrigerator
Kept or stored inside a fridge.
- There’s some cheese in the fridge if you’re hungry.
- Is the chicken in the fridge or on the counter?
- I always keep a bottle of water in the fridge.
raid the fridge
1take food quickly from fridge
To go to the refrigerator and quickly take food, often as a snack or when you should not.
- I got hungry at midnight and raided the fridge.
- He stayed up late studying and kept raiding the fridge.
- The kids raided the fridge after school and left nothing for dinner.
- The kids like to raid the fridge as soon as they get home from school.
- He loves to raid the fridge while he’s watching TV.
- I might raid the fridge later for some ice cream.