snowman
IPA: snˈoʊmæn
noun
- 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.
- (rare) An attractive but heartless man.
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Examples of "snowman" in Sentences
- A snowman is built in a basement that hides a Jew.
- Partly because the snowman is so inherently magical.
- This image of a threatening snowman is from a 1927 postcard.
- With each consecutive day the snowman is slowly built up and up.
- Sun 11/29/09 10: 05 AM frostey the snowman is a very hapy fun sole
- As they said on FARK. com, if you can tell a snowman is male, you've put the carrot in the wrong place.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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