snowman
Americannoun
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snowmen
plural
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a figure of a person made of packed snow.
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Slang.
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the numeral eight.
They retired Ripken’s number in 2001, so no Oriole will again wear that snowman on his back.
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Golf. a score of eight strokes on any individual hole.
I blew it on the ninth hole—still can’t believe I made the dreaded snowman.
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Instead of colliding violently, the two bodies gently come into contact and fuse, preserving their rounded shapes and creating the familiar snowman form.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
For one concert I wrote a song in Russian about a snowman who put on so many clothes that he melted.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
But closer inspection reveals a disturbing array of figures including people with warped faces, a snowman with strange facial features, and dogs with the heads of birds all bizarrely splashing through water.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
“She was like, ‘I don’t like the way that snowman looks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
He zooms his electric chair around the raggedy old snowman, tossing Velcroed stars and bells at it, asking, “Snowman go zoom zoom?”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
For decades, astronomers have tried to understand why so many icy bodies in the outer solar system resemble snowmen, with two rounded sections joined together.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
Many people took the opportunity to build snowmen and enjoy a day of sledging, transforming hills across the country into tobogganing slopes.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
Svitlana Yakovleva tightly held her two grandchildren, Myroslava, 6, and Yevgen, 8, as they watched snowmen perform a choreographed rendition of a holiday mash-up.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
Tired of Santas and relentlessly cheerful snowmen filling every screen?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
More snowmen had risen in the yard by the time Theon Greyjoy made his way back.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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