# deep freeze

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A chest freezer.
2. A time period of very cold weather, in which the temperatures are below freezing.

## Etymology
From deep + freeze. Second sense appears c. 1851 in the publication Prairie Farmer.

## Source
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