Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A figure of a person made from packed snow, usually formed by piling large snowballs on top of each other.
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- noun A
humanoid figure made with largesnowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), acarrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth). - noun slang A
playing card with the rank ofnine . - noun golf A score of
eight on a single hole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a figure of a person made of packed snow
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sun 11/29/09 10: 05 AM frostey the snowman is a very hapy fun sole
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The snowman is mounted on a silicon cantilever from an atomic force microscope whose sharp tip 'feels' surfaces creating topographic surveys at almost atomic scales.
Boing Boing 2009
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The snowman is accompanied by seasonally appropriate green asparagus and red glazed carrots (the red is food dye), and a bit of veggie burger with a Thai basil leaf.
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A snowman is built in a basement that hides a Jew.
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September 18, 2008 at 12: 50 pm cool. to me it looks like some little extra out of one of those rankin and bass tv specials. now that i think about it, it reminds me of the abominable snowman from the rudolph special.
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Partly because the snowman is so inherently magical.
Dutch Courage? Roger Sutton 2008
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This image of a threatening snowman is from a 1927 postcard.
Boing Boing 2008
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In the silent movie The Snowman by Wallace McCutcheon, a chain-smoking snowman is swigging whiskey and appears in the rest of the film sloshed, inspiring a flogging by the townspeople.
Boing Boing 2008
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As they said on FARK. com, if you can tell a snowman is male, you've put the carrot in the wrong place.
B. O. L. O. Bill Crider 2007
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With each consecutive day the snowman is slowly built up and up.
Review of the Day: First Day of Winter fusenumber8 2006
oroboros commented on the word snowman
This is also golf slang for the dreaded "8" (strokes) taken on a golf hole and entered with much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the scorecard! It is a triple-bogey on a 5-par hole and a quadruple-bogey on a 4-par. What do you think they'd call a 12!!? A dodecaman?
July 19, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word snowman
8? That's my usual score on the mini-golf course. Which is why I usually don't mini-golf, of course. ;)
July 19, 2007
reesetee commented on the word snowman
8 is my usual score in bowling. ;-)
July 19, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word snowman
I had no idea this was a golfing term. We live and learn.
December 22, 2007
bilby commented on the word snowman
Frosty the Triple-Bogey sounds like a really evil snowman indeed!
December 22, 2007
mollusque commented on the word snowman
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June 9, 2009