Snowman

Quick meaning: Snowman is a noun meaning (baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).

Meaning

(baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).

More Meanings

1. A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
2. (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
3. (rare) An attractive but heartless man.

Example Sentences

For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.

[The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.

"Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said. "Then Stone had to stay out there and suck it up for us […]"

A few years ago there lived a lover By the name of Jimmy Jones Who really snowed the girls and left them cold And gained the title of "The Great Snowman".

Word Forms

• snowmen

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snow, snowfall, abominable, snowperson, snowbear, snowkid.

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