snowman

• snow +‎ -man.
• (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsnəʊ.mæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊ.mæn/

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• Rhymes: -əʊmæn, -oʊmæn

snowman (plural snowmen)

1. 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).
2. (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, page 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:

     For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.

3. (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
4. (rare) An attractive but heartless man.

   Coordinate term: ice queen

   • 1961, John D. Loudermilk (lyrics and music), “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".

• snow figure, snowperson

• abominable snowman
• snowman hole
• snowmanness
• snowman sign

• snow angel

• iceman
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• Michael Wiesenberg (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker‎, MGI/Mike Caro University, →ISBN