Refrigerator = jail?

[Dennis R. Preston]

Is this "jocular hypercorrection" from 'cooler'? Do we have other
examples of jocular hypercorrection.

dInIs

>FWIW, I can remember when "the cooler" was a common slang term for gaol.
>
>-Wilson
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>>Came across this in the Willimantic Chronicle, Connecticut; (Brooklyn is a
>>CT town/village near Willimantic):
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>>>Mar. 14, 1883: A stranger named Patrick Grady in a drunken condition fell
>>>against a window in the
>>>European house Monday and refused to pay for the damage. Complaint was
>>>made to Officer Flynn who brought him
>>>before Justice Sumner where a fine of $2 and cost were imposed. He
>>>appealed from this decision and will await in
>>  >the Brooklyn refrigerator judgement from the superior court at
>>the May term.
>>
>>Michael McKernan