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icing

3 definitions • 2 examples
1
a sweet food used to cover or fill cakes, made from sugar and water or sugar and butter:

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2
in ice hockey, an action in which a player hits the puck (= a small, hard rubber disc that is used instead of a ball) from their own team's end of the rink (= playing area) to the other end without it being touched, in a way that is against the rules:

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In hockey, linesmen break up fights, and call offside and icing infractions.
3
the sweet, thick mixture of sugar, liquid, and flavoring that is used to cover cakes

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