ice out

present singular third person ices out · participle present icing out · participle past iced out · past iced out

1. transitiveTo shun or snub; to give the cold shoulder.

   He's really more the type to ice you out until whatever the issue is passes.

   2017, Genevieve Shaw Brown, The Happiest Mommy You Know

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   Instead, she chose to ice him out without a glance as they passed on the stairs.

   2012, Abby Grahame, Wentworth Hall

   In listening to him, I came to believe that the same personality type who would ice out or attack someone without talking to them first out of false “loyalty” would be the same person who would later be unable to apologize.

   2016, Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse

   “Why do I get the feeling that you're mad at us?” Sloane asked. I didn't respond. If they could ice me out, I could ice them out, too.

   2019, Kristy Woodson Harvey, The Southern Side of Paradise

   Getting iced out by the tech giants turned Parler into a cause célèbre for conservatives who complained they were being censored, as well as a test case for the openness of the internet.

   2021 February 15, Jack Nicas, “Parler, a Social Network That Attracted Trump Fans, Returns Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2021

2. slangtransitiveTo cover with diamonds.

   He pay it on time when the rent due Made him ice out my neck and the wrist too

   2019 March 29, “Leave Em Alone” (track 18), in Layton Greene (lyrics), Quality Control: Control the Streets, Vol. 2, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2021

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   Diamonds bitin heavily […] Ice out my bitch, I get fried and do bougie things

   2022 February 18, “ENEMIES” (track 3), in DC The Don (lyrics), My Own Worst Enemy, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2023

   Synonyms: bust down