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quick-frozen

quick-frozen adjective: whose temperature has been lowered rapidly to below the freezing point. Also the past participle of quick-freeze.

Adjective

quick-frozen (not comparable)

  1. Whose temperature has been lowered rapidly to below the freezing point.
    • During the years 1954-60, the sales of quick-frozen foods in Great Britain increased from £4,000,000 to £46,000,000, [...].1961 November, Hamilton Ellis, “The Eastern Region helps the frozen foods boom”, in Trains Illustrated, page 682

Also used as

quick-frozen is also the past participle of quick-freeze.

Questions about quick-frozen

What does quick-frozen mean?
Quick-frozen means whose temperature has been lowered rapidly to below the freezing point.
What part of speech is quick-frozen?
Quick-frozen is an adjective.

Words near quick-frozen in the dictionary

  1. quick-firers
  2. quick-freeze
  3. quick-freezes
  4. quick-freezing
  5. quick-froze
  6. quick-frozen
  7. quick-handed
  8. quick-handedness
  9. quick-hearted
  10. quick-like
  11. quick-setting

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