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