Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ice-cold \ice-cold\ adj. as cold as ice; extremely cold.
Syn: arctic, freezing, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 As cold as ice; very cold. 2 Without emotion; distant.
WordNet
adj. as cold as ice
Usage examples of "ice-cold".
The water was ice-cold and tinged with a dash of aquavit to keep the taste clean.
The stench of tar, the creak of timbers, the splash of the swell of an ice-cold sea, the incessant rocking all told him he was still a prisoner on the Azhkendi vessel, sailing ever farther away from Astasia by the hour.
Drink some orangeado - here is an ice-cold jug - and tell me what has happened all this time.
The pig and Slothrop settled down to sleep among pines thick with shreds of tinfoil, a cloud of British window dumped to fox the German radars in some long-ago raid, a whole forest of Christmas trees, tinsel rippling in the wind, catching the starlight, silent, ice-cold crownfire acres wild over their heads all night.
I tried for a long time to conjure up an image of her before that, just a sliver of something, like her tucking me into bed, reading the adventures of Uncle Wiggly, or hanging my underclothes near the space heater on ice-cold mornings.
At last, with a horrible splash, he darted like an arrow into the ice-cold water, and as he did so he uttered a shrill cry, stifled in a moment by his immersion beneath the waves.
The mortal women heard the quick footsteps behind them, felt the ice-cold touch as Bento shoved through them in his haste to go.
All week long SS bigwigs have been stomping through the puddles in the ice-cold raw cement structure, down in the enormous underground chambers and up above at the untried furnaces, their impatient brusque comments echoing to the splash and thump of boots.
Valley, most of us made it our practice to rise with the dawn, and, immediately after a bath in the ice-cold Merced, take a breakfast which might sometimes fail in the game-department, but was an invariable success, considered as slapjacks and coffee.
It is sacrilegious to count votes in the presence of homemade fettucini Also fredo and ice-cold Corvo Blanco.
Bertie smiled as she held up a glass of ice-cold lemonade and a plate of gingersnaps fresh out of the oven.
To me it was getting up before dawn, and washing in ice-cold water, no time to comb the hair, always carrying a feeling of personal mussiness, with an adjustment to dirt.
No matter how many times Riley offered to have a caterer bring a full spread into the skybox, his grandfather never wanted anything more than his peanuts and exactly two ice-cold beers.
Yet once in a while I liked to get the lift to the top floor of the famous old hotel and watch the sun go down over an ice-cold Tsingtao beer the best beer in China.
The friture and the ice-cold Vouvray, the cautious sniffing at each other and then the two cars motoring on in convoy until that evening, well down to the south, there would be the place they had agreed on at lunch - olive trees, crickets singing in the indigo dusk, the discovery that they liked each other and that their destinations could wait.