snowman

American  

[snoh-man] / ˈsnoʊˌmæn /

noun

plural

snowmen

1. a figure of a person made of packed snow.

2. Slang.

   1. the numeral eight.

      They retired Ripken’s number in 2001, so no Oriole will again wear that snowman on his back.

   2. 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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snowman British  

/ ˈsnəʊˌmæn /

noun

1. a figure resembling a man, made of packed snow

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Etymology

Origin of snowman

First recorded in 1820–30; snow + man

Example Sentences

Through Elmer, we considered the white of snowmen and the purple of scarves; the pink of strawberry ice lollies and the red of sunsets.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tired of Santas and relentlessly cheerful snowmen filling every screen?

From The Wall Street Journal

"We made a snowman - I remember not having a carrot to put on the nose, so we ended up with an apple," she said.

From BBC

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

Christmas, they say, comes once a year, but “once” now lasts for days and weeks and months, as Friday’s inflatable Frankenstein’s monster becomes Monday’s inflatable snowman.

From Los Angeles Times