icing
/ˈaɪsɪŋ/ · noun
Meaning
- A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
- A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
- The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
- To cool with ice, as a beverage.
- To become ice; to freeze.
- To make icy; to freeze.
- To murder.
- To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- To put out a team for a match.
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