snowman

[snoh-man]

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.

snowman

/ ˈsnəʊˌmæn /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of snowman¹

First recorded in 1820–30; snow + man

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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The globe-trotting “Sir Johnny” proves elusive, but sunnier weather causes a melting snowman in Kensington Gardens to yield the frozen corpse of a figure central to the case.

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“She was like, ‘I don’t like the way that snowman looks.

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People snow skiing down Bourbon Street in New Orleans, garbage can lids and plastic baby pools used as makeshift sleds, snowmen on the beach; it was something out of this world.

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