as in clam
a cold aloof person
his wife is such an icicle you're lucky to get so much as a greeting from her
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Recent Examples of icicle
Iman’s runway hair had the same components but resembled a hood of hair with long extensions and extra-large icicle earrings that reached from the top of her BumpIt to her shoulders.
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Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 26 Dec. 2025
When traveling in the sleigh in inclement weather, Santa gets icicles in his beard.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
Why are icicles forming on my gutters?
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 12 Dec. 2025
A little pop culture ornament shaped like a slice of pizza sitting next to a glass icicle.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
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Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 26 Dec. 2025
When traveling in the sleigh in inclement weather, Santa gets icicles in his beard.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
Why are icicles forming on my gutters?
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 12 Dec. 2025
A little pop culture ornament shaped like a slice of pizza sitting next to a glass icicle.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for icicle
Noun
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The second course comes with a clam chowder or elote street corn soup.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Du identified bristleworms, gastropods, clams, tubeworms and other organisms living in the extreme depths, supported not by sunlight but chemosynthetic microbes drawing energy from methane and sulfide seeping through the ocean floor.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Charles has visited every continent on Earth, drinking rancid yak butter tea in Lhasa, snorkeling with sea lions in the Galapagos and even climbing an iceberg in Antarctica.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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Climate change will probably lead other icebergs to a similar fate.—
Devika Rao,
TheWeek,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Trump put on one of the rings, flashed it to the cameras and waved his new hockey stick during the ceremony.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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On Tippett’s second-period goal, Grebenkin made a heads-up play to stick-check Samuelsson, opening up the shooting lane.—
Kevin Kurz,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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His family has described him as deciding to go cold turkey.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
11 Dec. 2025
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Going cold turkey is, often, an onerous way of quitting something completely and suddenly.—
Natalie Escobar,
NPR,
26 Nov. 2025
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“Icicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icicle. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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