ice-cold

comparative more ice-cold · superlative most ice-cold · alternative icecold · alternative ice cold

1. broadlyidiomaticVery cold.

   I'm going to put my coat back on — I'm ice-cold again!

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   Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold

   Synonyms: cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, freezing, frigid, frosty, stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse · Antonyms: boiling hot, steaming hot, piping hot, baking hot, smoking hot, hot, calid, choleric

2. figurativelyOf a person, look, or behavior: without emotion; distant; (sometimes) silently disapproving.

   I don't know why she gave me an ice-cold look — I had thought that the topic of conversation was totally innocuous.

   Synonyms: cold as ice, icy, frigid, stone cold, frosty

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point).

   ice-cold beer here

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   Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold

   It's best to serve this dessert while it's still ice-cold.

   Now I'm sitting here Sipping on my ice-cold beer Lazing on a sunny afternoon.

   1966, The Kinks, Sunny Afternoon

   When Tripp holds his red soda like it’s an ice-cold beer, it probably isn’t actually Mountain Dew Code Red, but it might as well be.

   2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club

   Synonyms: cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, freezing, frigid, frosty, stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse · Antonyms: boiling hot, steaming hot, piping hot, baking hot, smoking hot, hot, calid, choleric

plural ice-colds · alternative icecold · alternative ice cold

1. AustraliaslangA cold serving of beer.

   […] to sink a few ice colds […]

   Synonyms: cold one, frosty one