iceman

iceman

slang A person who is hired to kill someone; a hitman. Don't worry about that snitch. We've sent an iceman around to his house, so he won't be a problem for us much longer.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

iceman

n. a killer. (see also ice.) It’s hard to believe that Rocko is a professional iceman.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hired gun
  • drop a dime
  • drop the dime on
  • hit man
  • waste
  • waste (someone)
  • swam
  • be swimming with the fishes
  • be sleeping with the fishes
  • Fishes
References in periodicals archive
Iceman was the rival of Cruise's Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the first movie that was released in 1986.
Professor James Dickson will explain some of the wonderful secrets that have been discovered over the years relating to the iceman's lifestyle.
Tell us about Iceman. The Iceman series at Marvel Comics follows Bobby Drake, who is one of the original five X-Men, dating back all the way to the '60s.
Los Angeles [USA], August 21 ( ANI ): Two-time Academy-award winner Denzel Washington is all set to return next year to star in Eugene O'Neill's 'The Iceman Cometh'.
DNA traces origins of Iceman's ragtag wardrobe Link to Oetzi the Iceman found in living Austrians
Top-seeded Timbo Gonzalez/Shorty Ruiz proved they are the premier doubles team on the WPH outdoor tour, prevailing 15-11, 15-13 over Josue and Gregorio Tellez, making the IceMan their fourth WPH outdoor doubles title in less than a year.
The Iceman "may have been an opportunistic hunter or a scavenger," says O'Sullivan, of University College Dublin and EURAC Research in Bolzano, Italy.
This result may indicate a haphazard stitching together of clothing based upon materials that were available to the iceman."
ROSWELL ICEMAN showed his rivals a clean pair of heels en route to a facile success in heat three of the Towcester Racecourse Standard over 480m as the track made its RPGTV debut on Tuesday.
We are not entirely sure of the reasons behind the delay in the release of The Iceman in Oman, but the film came here last weekend almost a year after hitting the screens in the US, and almost two years after showing in the international festival circuit.
The crimelord, known as "Iceman", put the house in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, on the market after being told to hand over more than PS750,000 under proceeds of crime laws.
When we discussed navy jets in the film, I knew I wanted to include Iceman and Goose.
The Iceman Cert 15 THE ICEMAN is based on the true story of mob hitman Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, who was reportedly responsible for more than 200 murders.
THE ICEMAN (15) FRESH from starring in last month's Mud and before he arrives as General Zod in next week's Man of Steel, Michael Shannon has some very dirty work to do.
In response to Matti Nyknen's rejoinder of April 28, to my original letter on April 24, I am shocked at the quantum of English that she has poured out to make her hero seem like a bonafide Iceman. In an effort to keep the entire dialogue in its proper context, (and George Gervin does not require too much English to justify his nickname), suffice to say that George Gervin was the first and only Iceman, and everyone since is just an imitator - plagiarising a nickname because they couldn't come up with an original one of their own.