ice chest

1. 1.

   a refrigerator for cooling liquids

   Synonymscooler

   Broaderrefrigerator

Questions about ice chest

What does ice chest mean?

ice chest means "a refrigerator for cooling liquids".

What is another word for ice chest?

Close synonyms include cooler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ice chest a common word?

ice chest is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.