reefer†

[a shortening and alteration of refrigerator]

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a refrigerator car or truck; also, a walk-in refrigerator.

Quotations

1942

reefer--a refrigerator box car.

1963

Price had been showing them how to can the local fruit and prepare it for freezing in the Indian Affairs reefer.