ice up
English
Verb
ice up (third-person singular simple present ices up, present participle icing up, simple past and past participle iced up)
- (intransitive, of a mechanical device, etc.) To become covered or clogged with ice.
- The airplane stalled and crashed after its wings iced up.
- (transitive) To coat with ice; to cause to become covered or clogged with ice.
- 2015 June 17, Joan Hayward, Painer, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- The wind is whipping across this stretch of the road icing it up.
- (transitive) To put ice in or on something, especially a beverage or on an injured body part.
- 2011 March 17, Various, New Irish Short Stories (First Trilogy), Faber & Faber, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 183:
- […] , opened the freezer, broke the ice, shook a cocktail, drank it down, recalled my husband, mutilated him twice, fair is fair, what he deserves, wept an aria, made another drink, iced it up, held the sink, poured it down, heard it gurgle, guilt and grace, […]
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