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- noun Plural form of
iceman .
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Examples
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Mr Norphel is training new 'icemen' to carry on his work after he dies.
Home 2009
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By then, he hopes he will have trained enough new "icemen" to continue his work and save the world's "third icecap" from being transformed into rivers.
Medindia Health News 2009
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No lavishly expensive expert panels were held in total consensus about how necessary icemen were for the entire economy.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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NHL + The icemen cometh again, with rule changes and tie-breaking shootouts.
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM 2007
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Most icemen used tongs and carried the blocks on their back.
Garden of Beasts Deaver, Jeffery 2004
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"Certainly Mike has the skill level and the potential to jump in and be one of our top three center icemen within the next three years,"
USATODAY.com - Carolina takes defenseman Knyazev with 15th pick 2001
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When you see the plays and passes he makes and the way he sees the ice - I havent seen any big center icemen who do those things.
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WASHINGTON - Two serv-icemen missing in action from the Vietnam War have been identified and returned to their families for burial.
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And at two places sharp-tongued women would not allow him to enter, frankly stating that icemen were too dirty creatures to allow inside the door of a respectable house; the women received their ten-cent cubes in pans and slammed the door in his face.
The Landloper Holman Day 1900
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Any manager would love to have the great goalie and would love to have one of these two center-icemen, and we have all three.
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