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Snowman
//ˈsnoʊ.mæn// noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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).
- 2 a figure of a person made of packed snow wordnet
- 3 A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
"[The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too."
- 4 A playing card with the rank of eight. slang
- 5 An attractive but heartless man. rare
"A few years ago there lived a lover By the name of Jimmy Jones Who really snowed the girls and left them cold And gained the title of "The Great Snowman"."
Etymology
* snow + -man. * (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.
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