iceboxful
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iceboxful (plural not attested)
- (US, dated) Synonym of fridgeful
- 1989, Ladies' Home Journal - Volume 106, page 36:
- An iceboxful of ideas for super new shapes and scrumptious sauces
- 1980, Anthony Bailey, America, lost & found, page 124:
- Once a year he would have a stag session with two or three men friends— a short vacation in which they would simply move into one or another of their homes (generally 630 Runnymede) for two or three days and play golf by day and cards by night, and get through an iceboxful of Pabst.
- 1980, Eliot Wagner, My America!, page 54:
- Sarah's ma fat-faced cousin Mary with the crinkly brown wig mumbled that her daughter had to cook French toast for lunch on the Sabbath with an iceboxful of things to eat.