What is this Refer madness?!?

[funktionalart]

I didn't know where to post this....it's just a little rant, anyway. WHEN. OH. WHEN. did people start calling refrigerators "refers"? That word means something totally different to me....and now I find I've started having to add it to my search word criteria for my online refrigerator hunting. Have been turning up quite a few good items by using this new word. Wonder what I've missed because of this....phhhhhh

 

[ptcruiser51]

Odd definitions

I've personally never heard a fridge referred to as a "reefer". My uncle was a truck driver and a refrigerated trailer was called a "reefer" Only other reference I can think of (other than 420) is a reefer coat from the 50s. It was a ladies' collared cloth coat that was rather fitted.

But then, my parents still called the refrigerator "the icebox".

 

[frigilux]

I have never heard the term 'refer'; however, I live in a tiny village on the open prairie of southern Minnesota. The octogenarian down the street calls them frigidaires.

 

[funktionalart]

It is happening...

...dunno why! Can't tell you how many ads for a "refer" or a "frig" I come across. I must be living in a cultural vacuum of some kind :/ Icebox, I can live with...alot of people still use that term...but some of this other stuff~I'm surprised these guys can sell anything at all when it's named so oddly.

 

[funktionalart]

here's a very bad example of it...from CL, of course!

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/bfs/4591721764.html

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/bfs/4591721764.html

 

[hydralique]

I have heard the term reefer for many years used by people in the trucking industry to differentiate a refrigerated trailer from an ordinary one, as noted above by ptcruiser. My paternal grandparents in East Texas always called it an icebox, although IIRC theirs was a Whirlpool or Kenmore. The big Amana chest freezer was of course the deep freeze.

 

[funktionalart]

Looks like my vocabulary....

needs to broaden, then! Back home, a refrigerator is called a Kuhlschrank. Now if I start using that again, I will look like the odd-one... :/

 

[58limited]

In addition to refrigerated truck trailers, I've heard big walk-in commercial refrigerators called reefers too, especially when I was in the Army.

 

[rp2813]

I think it's a hayseed/man cave term, which would be why so many of us aren't familiar with its usage.

 

 

 

[a440]

Funny!
I have found this on Atlanta CL listings also.
Perhaps they are selling their "refers" to support their habit and it is some type of code we don't know about.

 

[bluejay]

Like others, I've heard reefer to mean a walk in refrigerator and in trucking (my company hires drivers and asks about reefer experience. I always find it interesting when terms work their way into everyday usage.

 

[cornutt]

When I was a child, there were a lot of elderly people who tended to refer to all refrigerators as Frigidaires.

 

[gusherb]

My 90 year old grandmother has called the refrigerator the "reefer" for years. The first time I heard her say that I looked at her sideways and said "you have any Idea what I thought you were saying?"...she damn well knew, and thought it was funny. Hahaha.

 

[tolivac]

when I was little-both my parents and grandparents called the refrigerator--"electric icebox".

 

[whirlcool]

In our house it was called "The Frigidaire" even though it was a Sears Coldspot.

 

[countryguy]

In our household it was called the 'fridge'.

 

[countryford]

<blockquote>
When I was a child, there were a lot of elderly people who tended to refer to all refrigerators as Frigidaires.

</blockquote>
 

 

I just watched Steel Magnolias a couple nights ago, and one of them called her Philco refrigerator a "Frigidaire." You could clearly see "Philco" on the door.

 

It is also similiar to someone calling a mono radio/phonograph a "Stereo".

 

http://ventura.craigslist.org/atq/4596036572.html

 

[perc-o-prince]

I knew about the refrigerated truck being a reefer, but not a regular fridge. I thought the only other thing reefer referred to was ganja, like in the movie, Reefer Madness.

The other furniture/appliance one I've been seeing, usually in auction ads, is draw. Like a 6 draw dresser. Oh, you mean drawer!

Chuck

 

[brib68]

Reefers and draws

I've long heard of commercial-type refrigeration units being called "reefers". Refrigerated trucks especially, and sometimes walk-in coolers. (My dad did some truck driving, so that's the lion's share of my reference base.) Never heard anyone call the home appliance a reefer. I think "frig" is probably someone who just spells things like they sound and don't have a concept of the 'extra' letters in "fridge".

Likewise, I hear people (especially in the Waterbury/Naugatuck area) say "draw" for "drawer", and they probably write it how they say it.

Now, can we talk about the people who post that they like the smell of someone's "colon"? I'm HOPING they mean "cologne"!