: extremely cold

Examples of ice-cold in a Sentence

ice-cold hands from hours spent shoveling snow
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Climbers have reported shimmying past the frozen remains of food containers, oxygen tanks, beer cans, and plenty of ice-cold human excrement. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025 Presentation matters too: Pre-batched martinis or other spirit-forward cocktails are stored in elegant glass bottles in the freezer and served ice-cold into petite coupes, and simple garnishes are pre-skewered and styled, like lemon twists and frozen grapes. Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025 Bring the flavors of your favorite root beer float to a creamy, dreamy, ice-cold pie—and that's exactly what this root beer float pie delivers. Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025 And, of course, coolers filled with ice-cold beer. Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ice-cold

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ice-cold was before the 12th century

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“Ice-cold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cold. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

Kids Definition

ice-cold

adjective
ˈī-ˈskōld
: very cold

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