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icing

[ ahy-sing ]

noun

  1. a sweet, creamy spread, as of confectioners' sugar, butter, and flavoring, for covering cakes, cookies, etc.; frosting.
  2. Meteorology. a coating of ice on a solid object. Compare glaze, rime 1.
  3. Aviation. the freezing of atmospheric moisture on the surface of an aircraft.
  4. Ice Hockey. the act of a player shooting the puck from the defensive half of the rink over the opponent's goal line, but not into the goal, as a defensive maneuver to keep the puck out of the reach of attacking opponents, resulting in a penalty against the defensive team if the puck is then next touched by an opponent other than the goalkeeper.


icing

/ ˈaɪsɪŋ /

noun

  1. Also called (esp US and Canadian)frosting a sugar preparation, variously flavoured and coloured, for coating and decorating cakes, biscuits, etc
  2. the formation of ice, as on a ship or aircraft, due to the freezing of moisture in the atmosphere
  3. any unexpected extra or bonus (esp in icing on the cake )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of icing1

First recorded in 1760–70; ice + -ing 1
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. icing on the cake. frosting ( def 5 ).
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Example Sentences

Dust, dirt, and cupcake icing can plunge deep into your face-forest.

Women want the cake and the icing and the cherry on top, just like everybody else, and we have to go for it.

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To be able to do it all in your own backyard is just the icing on the cake.

Add a dollop of icing in the middle of a cake plate, and put the first layer in place.

When we’re discussing using SEO data to identify your business gaps, then the icing on the cake is a good, thorough backlink gap.

And aside from doing the requisite things needed to seize the majority, there was icing on the cake, too.

That would be a nice little layer of icing, because it would prove the smug conventional wisdom as wrong as it usually is.

Bringing along Justin Timberlake and Madonna, as he did last night, was icing on the cake.

It's icing on the, well, ice that the film's story is as emotionally cascading as the setting.

The leather gloves are just icing on the weird, fabulous cake.

Part of it is deposited and frozen, and by increments the icing of these monstrous "cakes" is built up.

Before serving, sprinkle with a little powdered sugar, or if desired, ice with white icing with grated cocoanut sprinkled on top.

Put over boiling water, stirring continually until the icing grates slightly on bottom of bowl.

If pink icing is desired add one tablespoon strawberry or other fruit juice.

For Chocolate Icing use above, adding 1½ ounces melted unsweetened chocolate or 4½ tablespoons cocoa after removing from fire.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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