1. plural of icebox; insulated boxes or compartments used to keep food and drinks cold, especially those that used blocks of ice before electric refrigeration
Usage: historical

Examples

• The old farmhouse had two wooden iceboxes in the kitchen.
• Before refrigerators, families relied on iceboxes to preserve their food.
• The antique shop displayed several vintage iceboxes from the 1920s.
• Ice delivery trucks would fill the neighborhood iceboxes twice a week.
• Modern coolers work on the same principle as the old iceboxes.
• The museum exhibit showed how iceboxes revolutionized food storage.