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iceman

[ ahys-man ]

noun

, plural ice·men.
  1. a man whose business is gathering, storing, selling, or delivering ice.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of iceman1

First recorded in 1835–45; ice + man
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Example Sentences

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.

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.

I had just come from doing these festivals with Iceman, and everyone was talking about how fragile I was.

Each time—Star Trek, Black Swan, The Iceman—she has proven that her iconic status is no fluke.

Your Hickey in The Iceman Cometh has become legendary and most recently you played Jim Tyrone in A Moon for the Misbegotten.

So I communicated down the shaft to our iceman (one Jack) that I desired his presence in the apartment.

Hugo paid everything from the rent to the iceman, and this without once making his mother feel a beneficiary.

For a refrigerator had been brought to camp, and the iceman came on a boat, once a day, to leave ice.

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 iceman lingered too long now, when he came into the covered porch to fill the refrigerator.

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