Slang Dictionary
ice definition
- n.
diamonds; jewels. (Underworld.) : That old dame has tons of ice in her hotel room.
- n.
cocaine; crystalline cocaine. (Drugs.) : Max deals mostly in ice but can get you almost anything.
- tv.
to kill someone; to kill an informer. (Underworld. See also chill.) : Mr. Big ordered Sam to ice you-know-who.
- tv.
to ignore someone. (Underworld. See also chill.) : Bart iced Sam for obvious reasons.
- tv.
to embarrass someone; to make someone look foolish. : Don't ice me in front of my friends.
- n.
money given as a bribe, especially to the police. (Underworld.) : A lot of those cops take ice.
- mod.
excellent; very cool. : Her answer was ice, and she really put down that guy.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases
break the ice
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Make a start, pave the way, as in Newton's theories broke the ice for modern physics. This idiom alludes to breaking ice in a channel so that a ship can pass. [Early 1600s] Also see break ground.
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Relax a tense or very formal situation, as in Someone at the conference table will have to break the ice. [Early 1600s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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