Definitions

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  • noun An ice block, a block of ice.
  • noun Australia, New Zealand An ice lolly.

Etymologies

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ice +‎ block

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Examples

  • Having your child suck on an iceblock or ice cube before taking the big, bad gulp will numb the taste buds long enough to get the medicine down.

    Teach Kids To Be Independent | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • He plunged his old whitehaired body into the sea and swam to the first iceblock from where he spent the days remaining to him leaping from one block to the next, putting his ear to the surface of each.

    Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 2008

  • I'll be watching just to hear the announcers explain to America why a mage would iceblock because ice mages are irresponsible aggro-pullers on boss fights.

    Item of note: CBS to broadcast game play 2007

  • I'll be watching just to hear the announcers explain to America why a mage would iceblock because ice mages are irresponsible aggro-pullers on boss fights.

    July 2007 2007

  • Also I suspect that the paladin bubble, the druid sleep, the mage iceblock or blink, the shaman stoneclaw totem or the rogue vanish would have been equally useless.

    Feign death really works Torill 2007

  • Bond Street fascinated her; Bond Street early in the morning in the season; its flags flying; its shops; no splash; no glitter; one roll of tweed in the shop where her father had bought his suits for fifty years; a few pearls; salmon on an iceblock.

    Mrs. Dalloway 2003

  • When aware of the approach of their human visitors, they would slide off an iceblock into the water, holding their cubs in their arms, and ducking up and down in the sea as if in sport.

    History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • When aware of the approach of their human visitors, they would slide off an iceblock into the water, holding their cubs in their arms, and ducking up and down in the sea as if in sport.

    History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • When aware of the approach of their human visitors, they would slide off an iceblock into the water, holding their cubs in their arms, and ducking up and down in the sea as if in sport.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • When aware of the approach of their human visitors, they would slide off an iceblock into the water, holding their cubs in their arms, and ducking up and down in the sea as if in sport.

    History of the United Netherlands, 1598-99 John Lothrop Motley 1845

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