n.
- Water frozen solid.
- A surface, layer, or mass of frozen water.
- Something resembling frozen water: ammonia ice.
- A frozen dessert consisting of water, sugar, and a liquid flavoring, often fruit juice.
- Cake frosting; icing.
- Slang. Diamonds.
- Sports. The playing field in ice hockey; the rink.
- Extreme unfriendliness or reserve.
- Slang. A payment over the listed price of a ticket for a public event.
- Slang. Methamphetamine.
v., iced, ic·ing, ic·es. v.tr.
- To coat or slick with solidly frozen water.
- To cause to become ice; freeze.
- To chill by setting in or as if in ice.
- To cover or decorate (a cake, for example) with a sugar coating.
- Slang. To ensure of victory, as in a game; clinch.
- Sports. To shoot (the puck) from one's defensive half of an ice hockey rink across the opponent's goal line outside of the goal.
- Slang. To kill; murder.
To turn into or become coated with ice; freeze: The pond iced over.
idioms:
on ice Slang.
- Assured of attainment or success: With the extra goal the victory was on ice.
- In reserve or readiness.
- Away from public notice or activity.
- In a precarious position.
[Middle English is, from Old English īs.]
iceless ice'less adj.
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