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fridge n

(informal) A refrigerator. fridge v (transitive, informal) To place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate. [...] (transitive, fandom slang) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s). [...] (transitive, archaic, chiefly British, dialectal) To chafe or rub (something). (intransitive, obsolete) To chafe or rub. Synonym of fidge (“to jostle or shake; to fidget, to fig, to frig”) The Scottish-Australian engineer, newspaper printer, and politician James Harrison, who invented the first practical mechanical refrigerator and was often called the “father of refrigeration”, died on this day in 1893.

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