iceman

[ ahys-man ]

/ ˈaɪsˌmæn /

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noun, plural ice·men.

a man whose business is gathering, storing, selling, or delivering ice.

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Origin of iceman

First recorded in 1835–45; ice + man

Words nearby iceman

Iceland spar, ice lolly, ice machine, ice maiden, icemaker, iceman, ice milk, ice-minus, ice needle, ice needles, Iceni

How to use iceman in a sentence

It’s best not to draw immediate conclusions from these playoffs alone, other than that McPherson, a 2021 fifth-round pick out of Florida who was not alive when the Bengals last won a playoff game before this year, is an iceman.
NFL Kickers Are On Fire This Postseason|Alex Kirshner|February 8, 2022|FiveThirtyEight
The oldest preserved tattoos come from Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummified body frozen in ice discovered in the mountains of Italy in 1991.
Tattoos Have A Long History Going Back To The Ancient World – And Also To Colonialism|LGBTQ-Editor|September 13, 2021|No Straight News
I had just come from doing these festivals with Iceman, and everyone was talking about how fragile I was.
Winona Ryder Dishes on ‘Homefront,’ ‘Beetlejuice 2,’ and Generation X|Andrew Romano|November 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Each time—Star Trek, Black Swan, The Iceman—she has proven that her iconic status is no fluke.
Winona Ryder Dishes on ‘Homefront,’ ‘Beetlejuice 2,’ and Generation X|Andrew Romano|November 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Your Hickey in The Iceman Cometh has become legendary and most recently you played Jim Tyrone in A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Kevin Spacey on Casino Jack|Kevin Sessums|December 14, 2010|DAILY BEAST
So I communicated down the shaft to our iceman (one Jack) that I desired his presence in the apartment.
Turns about Town|Robert Cortes Holliday
Hugo paid everything from the rent to the iceman, and this without once making his mother feel a beneficiary.
Half Portions|Edna Ferber
For a refrigerator had been brought to camp, and the iceman came on a boat, once a day, to leave ice.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While|Laura Lee Hope
The iceman sets his nippers into the ice and lifts the block; but the bird sets his claws into the tree and lifts his own body.
The Woodpeckers|Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
The iceman lingered too long now, when he came into the covered porch to fill the refrigerator.
My Antonia|Willa Cather

British Dictionary definitions for iceman

ice man

noun

mainly US a man who sells or delivers ice

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