ice man
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The Scots took to the "wee ice man"; today the game venerates him.
From Golf Digest • Jul. 12, 2018
“I turned into this ice man in a way,” he says.
From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2017
“There were only three other foreigners here, just a handful of homestays, and if you wanted a cold beer, you had to wait for the ice man to come from Lombok every few days.”
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2017
“We didn’t have a refrigerator—the ice man would come and he’d put ice in the ice box,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2016
By the early years of World War II, Turner Station had a few paved roads, a doctor, a general store, and an ice man.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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