fridge

Meanings

Noun

• A refrigerator.

Verb

• To place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate.
• 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).
• To chafe or rub (something).

Origin

• The noun is a , perhaps influenced by the Frigidaire brand of refrigerators, or frigerator. The verb is derived from the noun.
• From fridge, alluding to “women in refrigerators”, a phrase , who criticized a plot point in Green Lantern (volume 3, issue 54, 1994) in which Kyle Rayner, the Green Lantern, comes home to discover that the villain Major Force has murdered his girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt and left her body for him to find in the refrigerator.
• Probably imitative of the sound of chafing or rubbing.