ice man
Bygone cooling supplier
An ice man is someone who delivers ice—a job that was common before electric refrigeration, when households needed regular ice deliveries to keep food cold.
The term persists in compound forms like iceman cometh.
In slang, an ice man is someone notably calm under pressure, or a hired killer—cold in both senses.
- glacierSlow-moving ice mass
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- ÖtziNeolithic mummy from Alps
- ancient remainsPreserved traces from long ago
mummy · Alps · preserved · ancient · delivery · tongs · refrigeration · cold storage · cold · frost · snow · thaw · copper · age · discovery · archaeology · stone tools · cave
- ice tradeicehouses, iceboxes, delivery routes, cold chain
- Courierscourier, messenger, mail carrier, postal worker, delivery driver
- mummiesmummy, mummies, mummification, Egyptian mummy, King Tut
- prehistoric humanscaveman, cave dwellers, cave dweller, Neanderthal, Neanderthals
- Ancient Gravestombs, crypts, mausoleums, burial mounds, sarcophagi
emotional temperament
ice manhothead
Impetuous, easily angered person
firebrand · bleeding heart · romantic · drama queen · sentimentalist
composure under pressure
ice manchoker
Close-fitting neck jewelry
nervous wreck · basket case · loose cannon · head case · panicker