Definition of "quick-frozen" []

• Of something whose temperature has been lowered rapidly to below the freezing point. (adjective)
• Past participle of quick-freeze (verb)

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• "Mexico employs a large fleet of trawlers which dredge up vast quantities of shrimp and prawns, quick-frozen for the waiting consumer inland."
• "Had they not been quick-frozen in the crater, they, too, would probably have flown off into space, as most incoming molecules do."
• "Every odd berry and bud, quick-frozen on the twig the previous fall, has already been discovered and thoroughly savored."