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snowman

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snowman (plural snowmen)

A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
(baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
- 1996 June 3, Buster Olney, "Chat with Sparky helps 'useless' Johnson Dejected O's manager gets lift from ex-Tigers boss ↗", in The Baltimore Sun, quoting B. J. Surhoff:
  "[The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too."
- 2005 June 26, Dayton Daily News (44):
  "Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said. "Then Stone had to stay out there and suck it up for us […] "
- 2018, Andre Huu, The Round of Your Life: A Book on Golf and Life, Archway Publishing (ISBN 9781480860537):
  For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.
(slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
An attractive but heartless man (similar to ice queen).
- 1961, John D. Loudermilk in the song "The Great Snowman"
  A few years ago there lived a lover By the name of Jimmy Jones Who really snowed the girls and left them cold And gained the title of 'The Great Snowman'.

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