ice pick

noun

: a hand tool ending in a spike for chipping ice

Examples of ice pick in a Sentence

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In 1988, Tatum was hospitalized for nearly five weeks after another inmate smashed an ice pick into his forehead and neck, damaging his spine. Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 25 July 2024 Bob Hayward stopped Bundy's tan Volkswagen, which was lingering outside a home in Granger, Utah. After finding a ski mask, a crowbar, an ice pick and handcuffs in the car, the officer placed Bundy under arrest – but he was soon released. Christina Coulter, Fox News, 14 July 2024 Glover, then in her mid-30s, was standing in front of a bathroom mirror fixing her hair while getting ready for work as a craps dealer at a Las Vegas casino when she was struck by pain that felt like an ice pick piercing the right side of the top of her head. Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 13 July 2024 Knives, guns, clubs and ice picks were commonplace. Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ice pick 

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ice pick was in 1851

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“Ice pick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20pick. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

ice pick

noun
: a hand tool ending in a spike for chipping ice
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