ice man—
1. (U.S.) a man who retails and delivers ice (for use in ice-boxes, etc.):
- We played our games. I was the iceman and she was the housewife.
2. a man skilled in traversing ice (in Alpine or polar regions):
- We knew as icemen that the access to the land-ice from the floe was both toilsome and dangerous.
3. a person looking after the ice on a skating-pond:
- What becomes of icemen and skate-lenders in summer?
4. a hockey player:
- The ice men are through to the final of the Autumn trophy … they beat Swindon in the semi-final.
5. (Ice Man) man living in the Ice Age:
- The process will make it possible for fragile mummies such as the recently discovered Ice Man to be accessible to the public.
6. (Underworld) a hired killer; an assassin:
- Zen was sitting in a small white-curtained cubicle, thinking about Trotsky and the ice-man.
snow man—
1. a mass of snow made into the figure of a man:
- The daylight passed in snowman-making on the meadow.
2. (also: Abominable Snowman, the) a creature alleged to exist in the Himalayas:
- Mr. Smythe says that the snowman superstition is known only to the Tibetan peoples.
3. (U.S. sl.) a person who deceives people with plausible words; a swindler:
- You’re a great snow man, Warren. But I’m not in dreamland yet.