snowman
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- snow + -man.
- (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]snowman (plural snowmen)
- A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
- (baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
- 1996 June 3, Buster Olney, “Chat with Sparky helps 'useless' Johnson Dejected O's manager gets lift from ex-Tigers boss”, in The Baltimore Sun[1] (quoting B. J. Surhoff):
- [The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.
- 2005 June 26, Dayton Daily News[2], page 44:
- "Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said. "Then Stone had to stay out there and suck it up for us […] "
- 2018, Andre Huu, The Round of Your Life: A Book on Golf and Life, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
- For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
- (rare) An attractive but heartless man.
- Coordinate term: ice queen
- 1961, John D. Loudermilk (lyrics and music), “The Great Snowman”:
- A few years ago there lived a lover
By the name of Jimmy Jones
Who really snowed the girls and left them cold
And gained the title of "The Great Snowman".
Hypernyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]figure made of snow
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Michael Wiesenberg (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker[3], MGI/Mike Caro University, →ISBN
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