What is "fridge"

Fridge \Fridge\, v. t. [AS. frician to dance, from free bold. Cf. Freak, n.] To rub; to fray. [Obs.]
--Sterne.

shortened and altered form of refrigerator, 1926, an unusual way of word-formation in English; perhaps influenced by Frigidaire (1919), name of a popular early brand of self-contained automatically operated iceless refrigerator (Frigidaire Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), a name suggesting Latin frigidarium "a cooling room in a bath." Frigerator as a colloquial shortening is attested by 1886.

Etymology 1 vb. (context archaic English) To rub, chafe. Etymology 2

alt. A refrigerator. n. A refrigerator. vb. 1 To place inside of a refrigerator. 2 (label en fandom slang) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a female character from a narrative, often strictly to hurt a male character and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s).

n. a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor [syn: electric refrigerator]

Fridge refers to refrigerator, an electrical appliance.

Fridge may also refer to:

• Fridge (band), a British post rock band
• The Fridge, a nightclub in Brixton, South London
• Ralph Fridge, a trance music producer
• Ralph Friedgen, University of Maryland football coach nicknamed "The Fridge"
• William Perry (American football), former professional American football player nicknamed the "The Fridge"

Fridge are a UK post-rock band, comprising school friends Kieran Hebden, Adem Ilhan, and Sam Jeffers. Initially Hebden played guitar, Ilhan bass, and Jeffers drums, but Hebden and Ilhan soon adopted a variety of other instruments, and by 1999's Eph the sampler was playing an increasingly important role in the group's music. Hebden, Ilhan and Jeffers all attended Elliott School in Putney, which has become regarded as a hotbed for musical talent; other notable alumni including Hot Chip, Burial and The xx - all of which members of Fridge have worked with.

Hebden began a solo career in the late 1990s under the name Four Tet while the other two members attended college. Ilhan has also released three solo albums, Homesongs (2004), Love and Other Planets (2006), and Takes (2008) under the name Adem. The band's fifth album (and first in six years), The Sun, was released in June 2007.

The three musicians have also worked on occasion as the backing band for Badly Drawn Boy, and remixed his single Another Pearl.

Fridge also played their first public gig in six years, at Bardens Boudoir in Dalston, London on 9 August 2007. They followed this up with a performance at the 2007 Field Day festival in Victoria Park, London.

Fridge is a 2006 television and print advertising campaign launched by Diageo to promote canned Guinness-brand stout in the United Kingdom. The campaign was handled by advertising agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. The television piece was directed by J J Keith, and shot in the Czech Republic. The television ad is a thirty-second comedic spot aimed at men in their twenties and thirties, revolving around the idea of a miniature bartender who lives in a refrigerator, serving drinks to purchasers of cans of Guinness stout. The idea behind the ad was to promote the cans as being just as high quality as Guinness draught beer, which was traditionally the focus of Guinness advertising and marketing.

The ad is the sixth in the " Good things come to those who wait" campaign, following on from the hugely successful noitulovE campaign in 2005. The fish behind the bar is a nod to another previous campaign ( Fish Bicycle). It was followed itself by Hands later in 2006.