Wiktionary
n. A pre-cooked meal that is stored in the freezer and then cooked in a microwave oven.
Usage examples of "frozen dinner".
She left Close Encounters and went home, put a frozen dinner in the micro, and turned on the news.
Nothing on the counter but the box from which he had taken last night's frozen dinner.
Brenna did a quick mental inventory of her freezer, pessimistic about her chances of finding a frozen dinner there.
Stoner looked up from his frozen dinner and saw Jo standing in the kitchen doorway, a thick manila folder clutched in her mit-tened hands.
They had the following things for dinner: one Le Menu Yankee Pot Roast frozen dinner, one sliced Butterball turkey sandwich on Roman Meal bread, one pair of Sara Lee cinnamon and raisin bagels lightly toasted and topped with cream cheese, one peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread, served with a small dish of Borden's chocolate ice cream and half a glass of milk.
The food in the frozen dinner tray on her bedside table was gone but Elspeth had left a white flower the size of a dinner plate in its place.
Tommy heated up a frozen dinner and left the freezer lid open so Peary could hear him better.
Qwilleran knew his friends would coax him into enrolling, but he knew all he wanted to know about cooking: he could thaw a frozen dinner to perfection.
She had lost 106 pounds in 24 weeks by eating one Weight Watchers frozen dinner per day and nothing else but chamomile tea, unsweetened.
I wish this house were haunted, she thought, sliding a frozen dinner into the microwave and wandering back into the living room.
By the time the stewardesses are thawing out frozen dinners for the paying customers inside, Valdez is a frozen dinner himself, his suffocated corpse clinging to the huge tire like an ice sculpture of a monkey.
Instead of going to the fridge and pulling out a frozen dinner, the Writer stalked out the front door of the mobile home and got into his battered old Toyota hatchback.