ice up

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

1. intransitiveusuallyTo become covered or clogged with ice.

   The airplane stalled and crashed after its wings iced up.

2. transitiveTo coat with ice; to cause to become covered or clogged with ice.

   The wind is whipping across this stretch of the road icing it up.

   2015 June 17, Joan Hayward, Painer, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC

3. transitiveTo put ice in or on something, especially a beverage or on an injured body part.

   By the end of the day, the ankle was worse, and we again iced it up for the evening.

   2020 September 23, Tom Friedemann, If It Were Easy, They’d Call It Catchin’: How Journaling Can Improve Your Fishing and Yourself, Archway Publishing, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   He hired, through his Coca-Cola connections, a cooler, iced it up, and filled it with a trial case of the stuff, and parked it in the downstairs hall of the Theta chapter house.

   1937, The Rattle of Theta Chi, Theta Chi Fraternity, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30

   […], opened the freezer, broke the ice, shook a cocktail, drank it down, recalled my husband, mutilated him twice, fair is fair, what he deserves, wept an aria, made another drink, iced it up, held the sink, poured it down, heard it gurgle, guilt and grace, […]

   2011 March 17, Various, New Irish Short Stories (First Trilogy), Faber & Faber, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 183