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Other safety tips include wearing a floatation device and carrying rope and an ice pick, as well as telling family or friends of whereabouts and not testing ice thickness alone.
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Deena Butterfield, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
Tanya reveals that the Powell boy was killed by an ice pick to the back of the head, 8-12 hours before his body was strung up.
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Nick Caruso, TVLine, 27 Dec. 2024
Loading your audio article A homeless man brandishing an ice pick threatened passersby at a busy Midtown Manhattan intersection Tuesday morning before cops arrived and arrested him, authorities said.
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Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 22 Nov. 2024
In 1940, a Soviet agent murdered Leon Trotsky with an ice pick in Mexico City.
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Edward Lucas, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2016
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First Known Use
1851, in the meaning defined above
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“Ice pick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20pick. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
ice pick
noun
: a hand tool ending in a spike for chipping ice
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