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blue ice noun frozen toilet waste from an aircraft which melts off and falls US- A 30-pound chunk of ice that fell from the sky over Tecumseh, Okla., was not the world’s largest hailstone but probably “blue ice” from an airliner’s leaky lavatory, officials say. — United Press International, 15 March 1982
- A block of what is known in the aircraft industry as “blue ice” crashed through the bedroom ceiling of a home in Toronto on Canadian Thanksgiving Day, 1994. Aircraft’s frozen dropping terrifies Toronto householder. — Toronto Globe and Mail, p. A3, 13 October 1994
- 48. Blue ice falling on houses. [List of 100 things that wouldn’t have occurred without development of the airplane]. — Newsday (New York), p. B10, 8 December 2003
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