Definition of ice pick
: a hand tool ending in a spike for chipping ice
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She'd been stabbed 11 times with an ice pick before her killer posed her corpse by the water.
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The relentlessly crawling river of ice picked up loose bluestones along the way, eventually depositing them on the Salisbury Plain once the planet warmed again and the ice melted away.
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The mob stabbed him with ice picks, dragged his body three blocks to the courthouse in downtown Salisbury, a small city on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
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Guzman was one of the thugs who tortured them with an ice pick, before the Americans ultimately were killed.
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There are quite a few ways to make your own journal, but click play above and learn two super easy methods of binding your own bullet journal with little more than some card stock, some string, a hole punch, and an ice pick.
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The 20-year-old was covered in bruises and had been stabbed 11 times with an ice pick before her killer posed her corpse by the water, according to court records.
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Knox said the Coast Guard advises people who are near ice to always carry an ice pick, flares, and a VHF radio for calling in emergencies, because phone batteries die faster in cold weather.
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Though most often seen on soap operas, teen network the CW has lately been using twins to explain characters’ deaths: Jane the Virgin recently used a twins excuse to bring back a character impaled with an ice pick.
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First Known Use of ice pick
1851
ICE PICK Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of ice pick for English Language Learners
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: a sharp tool used for breaking off small pieces of ice
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