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icing

/ˈaɪsɪŋ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
  2. 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.
  3. The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
  4. To cool with ice, as a beverage.
  5. To become ice; to freeze.
  6. To make icy; to freeze.
  7. To murder.
  8. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
  9. To put out a team for a match.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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