ice out
See also: ice-out
English
Verb
ice (someone) out (third-person singular simple present ices out, present participle icing out, simple past and past participle iced out)
- To shun; to give the cold shoulder.
- 2012, Abby Grahame, Wentworth Hall:
- Instead, she chose to ice him out without a glance as they passed on the stairs.
- 2016, Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse:
- In listening to him, I came to believe that the same personality type who would ice out or attack someone without talking to them first out of false “loyalty” would be the same person who would later be unable to apologize.
- 2017, Genevieve Shaw Brown, The Happiest Mommy You Know:
- He's really more the type to ice you out until whatever the issue is passes.
- 2019, Kristy Woodson Harvey, The Southern Side of Paradise:
- “Why do I get the feeling that you're mad at us?” Sloane asked. I didn't respond. If they could ice me out, I could ice them out, too.