Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
registered trademark (U.S. Patent Office, 1941) of a type of refrigerator; used generically for "cold storage" since 1949.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of deep freeze English) vb. To freeze at very low temperatures.
WordNet
See deepfreeze
n. electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time [syn: Deepfreeze, deep freezer, freezer]
Usage examples of "deep-freeze".
I bet You my gold badge if there's a deep-frozen ayrab courier up front, Meyer Cohane's JDL boys are in back of it.
You deep-freezed me for seventeen years and left me with a puppet body.
The repair trucks from the gas and electric company and the telephone companies and the cable television companies pushed gradually farther out from the centers into the hills, and deep-freezes hummed back to life, telephones rang, televisions brought pictures of the other storm victims.
We're not sure if simple hibernation stops the aging process, but we're fairly certain that deep-freezing does-and there are groups working on that, at Bethesda and San Antonio.
He started looking into the possibilities of deep-freezing people, putting them into suspended animation in cryogenic sleeping units.
The last time, indeed the only time I had been out through an escape hatch on to the surface, there had been that bloodcurdling demonstration from Smales of how to deep-freeze a pork chop.
There are rather more accounts of the explosion that occurred on the second Friday of the cooking process, which caused red-hot short-crust pastry to scythe across a large part of Ankh-Morpork and accounted for the occasional shower of sultanas and deep-frozen baked apple for some days afterwards.