Icebreaker

Quick meaning: Icebreaker is a noun meaning (nautical) A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.

Meaning

(nautical) A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.

More Meanings

1. (theater) A lively song and dance routine at the start of a musical.
2. (figurative) A game, activity, humorous anecdote, etc., designed to ease tension and encourage interaction among individuals in a situation where they do not know each other well.

Example Sentences

The steel hulls of ice-breakers are much thicker than those of standard vessels.

My father's Bonneville was cutting its way toward us like an icebreaker moving through my whole state of consciousness.

The new college hallmates were awkward with each other at first, but after a game of charades as an icebreaker, they were laughing like old friends.

The Australian Antarctic Division’s chartered icebreaker the Aurora Australis on a previous mission wedged in ice in Commonwealth Bay 10 nautical miles from Mawson’s Hut in Antarctica.

Word Forms

• icebreakers
• ice breaker
• ice-breaker

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include icebreaking, vessel, class, preface, slushbreaker, iceboating.

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