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icebreaker
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural icebreakers
plural icebreakers
Learner's definition of ICEBREAKER
[count]
1
: a ship designed to clear a passage through ice破冰船
2
: something done or said to help people to relax and begin talking at a meeting, party, etc.（在会议、聚会等场合）打破沉默的行为，使气氛活跃的语言 — see also break the ice at 1ice
- using an old joke as a conversational icebreaker用一个老笑话活跃谈话气氛
icebreaker
noun
ice·break·er ˈīs-ˌbrā-kər 
2
: something that is done or said to get through the first difficulties in starting a conversation or discussion
Roughly half of all Americans are invested in the market these days, and stock holdings have replaced politics, weather and sports as the go-to conversational icebreaker.
Adam Bryant
Adam Bryant… she also pays particular attention to icebreakers that relax guests and get them rubbing elbows, such as a cruise up the Colorado River, where guests nibble on hors d'oeuvres and sip Fall Creek wines. Steve Heimoff
see also break the ice at break entry 1 Steve Heimoff
Example Sentences
using an old joke as a conversational icebreaker
Recent Examples on the Web Fourth-graders at the iLearn Virtual School in Dallas began class Thursday morning with an icebreaker. Ben Chapman, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022 Her first tour as an ensign took her to Seattle for an assignment aboard an icebreaker, the Polar Star. New York Times, 31 May 2022 Its newest vessel, Le Commandant Charcot, rated as a Polar Class 2 icebreaker, entered service earlier this year. Doug Gollan, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 The hat became a small conversation piece, a wee wearable icebreaker. Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 June 2022 Set on an icebreaker and sprayed with a hose for 72 hours, Casto’s pot more than tripled its weight. Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022 As an icebreaker, Sue Skirvin asks the 15 or so people in the room to give an adjective that starts with the same letter as their name. Austin Fuller, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022 On October 4, 2019, the Polarstern, a German icebreaker the length of a football field, sidled up to a thick ice floe above the Arctic Circle and turned off its engines. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 May 2022 The best-selling author does serve up stories, lots of them; the book is a grab bag of anecdotes, many of which have the tone and the import of a humorous icebreaker in a Rotary Club speech. Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 See More
Ben Chapman, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022 Her first tour as an ensign took her to Seattle for an assignment aboard an icebreaker, the Polar Star. New York Times, 31 May 2022 Its newest vessel, Le Commandant Charcot, rated as a Polar Class 2 icebreaker, entered service earlier this year. Doug Gollan, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 The hat became a small conversation piece, a wee wearable icebreaker. Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 June 2022 Set on an icebreaker and sprayed with a hose for 72 hours, Casto’s pot more than tripled its weight. Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022 As an icebreaker, Sue Skirvin asks the 15 or so people in the room to give an adjective that starts with the same letter as their name. Austin Fuller, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022 On October 4, 2019, the Polarstern, a German icebreaker the length of a football field, sidled up to a thick ice floe above the Arctic Circle and turned off its engines. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 May 2022 The best-selling author does serve up stories, lots of them; the book is a grab bag of anecdotes, many of which have the tone and the import of a humorous icebreaker in a Rotary Club speech. Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1825, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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