Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A man who cuts, sells, or delivers ice.
  • noun Slang A hired killer.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man skilled in traveling upon ice.
  • noun One who is engaged in the industry of gathering and storing ice for commercial or domestic uses; a dealer in ice; also, one who distributes ice to customers.
  • noun An official whose duty it is to keep the ice on a skating-pond in order and to assist those who meet with accidents while skating. See ice-muster, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.
  • noun One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who trades in ice.
  • noun A man who is skilled in travelling upon ice, as among glaciers.
  • noun slang An assassin.
  • noun slang One who is cool under pressure.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a professional killer
  • noun someone who cuts and delivers ice

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

ice +‎ -man

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word iceman.

Examples

  • It was from watching the Stooges that I learned who the iceman was and what he cameth for, that people used to listen to the radio instead of watching television, that a dime would buy you a cup of coffee and a piece of pie, that there were still horse-drawn delivery wagons working in the streets, and that men wore suits everywhere, even in the unemployment line.

    History lessons from Larry, Moe, and Curly 2009

  • Back in the day when people used iceboxes to keep food cold, the iceman was a constant visitor in everyone's home, but once refrigerators became affordable, the iceman went the way of the Dodo bird.

    To E-book or not E-book? Shirley Damsgaard 2010

  • Back in the day when people used iceboxes to keep food cold, the iceman was a constant visitor in everyone's home, but once refrigerators became affordable, the iceman went the way of the Dodo bird.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Casey 2010

  • Come to think of it, that would be quite a match up; the iceman is a monster, but do you think he could take out alexander the great's most decorated warrior in full battle regalia (i.e. javelin, armor, sword)?

    Vegas Pop Blog 2009

  • Come to think of it, that would be quite a match up; the iceman is a monster, but do you think he could take out alexander the great's most decorated warrior in full battle regalia (i.e. javelin, armor, sword)?

    Vegas Pop Blog 2009

  • Come to think of it, that would be quite a match up; the iceman is a monster, but do you think he could take out alexander the great's most decorated warrior in full battle regalia (i.e. javelin, armor, sword)?

    Vegas Pop Blog 2009

  • Come to think of it, that would be quite a match up; the iceman is a monster, but do you think he could take out alexander the great's most decorated warrior in full battle regalia (i.e. javelin, armor, sword)?

    Vegas Pop Blog 2009

  • Come to think of it, that would be quite a match up; the iceman is a monster, but do you think he could take out alexander the great's most decorated warrior in full battle regalia (i.e. javelin, armor, sword)?

    Vegas Pop Blog 2009

  • Come to think of it, that would be quite a match up; the iceman is a monster, but do you think he could take out alexander the great's most decorated warrior in full battle regalia (i.e. javelin, armor, sword)?

    Vegas Pop Blog 2009

  • Come to think of it, that would be quite a match up; the iceman is a monster, but do you think he could take out alexander the great's most decorated warrior in full battle regalia (i.e. javelin, armor, sword)?

    Vegas Pop Blog 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.