snowman
Americannoun
plural
snowmen-
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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noun
Etymology
Origin of snowman
Example Sentences
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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
Over the summer, when I was with Dad and Steph in Phoenix, he taught me how to whittle a spoon, a turtle, and a bear that ended up looking like a snowman.
From Literature
For one concert I wrote a song in Russian about a snowman who put on so many clothes that he melted.
From BBC
Many people took the opportunity to build snowmen and enjoy a day of sledging, transforming hills across the country into tobogganing slopes.
From BBC
Through Elmer, we considered the white of snowmen and the purple of scarves; the pink of strawberry ice lollies and the red of sunsets.
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