SNOWMAN

snowman

(noun) a figure of a person made of packed snow

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

snowman (plural snowmen)

A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).

(baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).

(slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.

An attractive but heartless man (similar to ice queen).

Hypernyms

• snow figure, snowperson

Source: Wiktionary



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