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🍏 Firmer or fresher 🥕 A fridge compartment
crisper

crisper

4 3.5
A drawer in a fridge that keeps fruits and vegetables fresh
  • noun
  • /ˈkrɪspər/
  • US
translation icon : compartimento para verduras
  • To keep your vegetables fresh, store them in the crisper of the refrigerator.
  • vegetable crisper
  • refrigerator crisper
  • lettuce in the crisper

Examples

  • If I can't get fresh veggies from my crisper, I do a "Greens" drink mid-morning or afternoon.

    Blog text (9)

  • A bowl of tuna salad was moldy, the crisper was filled with wilted foliage, and the milk jug was a week past its expiration date.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • My family and I prefer a crisper.

    Blog text (13)

  • The temperature of the fridge's crisper should be within the range of a root house.

    Blog text (25)

  • It was old but working okay, but the crisper drawers were missing.

    Blog text (18)

  • lt wouldn't kill you to keep lettuce in the crisper.

    A Guy Thing (2003)

  • He opens the fridge, slides open the crisper, and pulls out an envelope.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Fridge should be set about 40-48°F; crisper should be 48-50°F.

    Blog text (25)

  • I'm now thinking very differently about the cartons of raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries sitting in my crisper.

    Blog text (14)

  • The leafy greens stayed crisp for days when I placed them in the crisper drawer.

Surface Forms

crisper singular
crispers plural

Morphology

crisper = crisp (semi-transparent) = crisp + er

Formed from 'crisp' + '-er' but the specific fridge compartment meaning ('a drawer that keeps produce crisp') is a specialized extension not fully predictable from the base.

Etymology

Crisper as a fridge part is named from crisp because it helps keep fruit and vegetables 'firm' and 'fresh'. That is why the crisper is the drawer used to help produce stay crisp.