icepick

See also: ice pick

English

An icepick (sense 1)

Shapes of different acne scars, including icepick scar (sense 2)

Alternative forms

• ice pick, ice-pick

Pronunciation

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Noun

icepick (plural icepicks)

1. A pointed tool, shaped like an awl, used for breaking ice.
2. (attributive, followed by "scar") A type of narrow and deep atrophic (indented) acne scar that resembles a puncture in the skin.

   Hypernym: atrophic scar

   Coordinate terms: boxcar scar, rolling scar

Derived terms

• ice-pick lobotomy
• ice-pick headache

Translations

a pointed tool used for breaking ice

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: нож для колкі лёду m (nož dlja kólki ljódu)
• Bulgarian: шило за лед n (šilo za led)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碎冰錐 / 碎冰锥 (zh) (suìbīngzhuī), 冰鑹 / 冰镩 (zh) (bīngcuān)

• Czech: sekáček na led m
• Danish: issyl (da) c
• Dutch: ijspriem (nl) m
• Estonian: tuur
• Finnish: naskali (fi)
• French: pic à glace m
• German: Eispick m
• Ingrian: tuura
• Irish: bior oighir m
• Italian: punteruolo da ghiaccio m
• Japanese: アイスピック (ja) (aisupikku)
• K'iche': ukech' tew sg or n
• Komi-Zyrian: пыридз (pyridź)
• Malay: pemecah ais
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: нӱске (nüske)

• Polish: szpikulec (pl) m
• Portuguese: picador de gelo m, quebrador de gelo m
• Russian: пе́стик для ко́лки льда́ m (péstik dlja kólki lʹdá), пешня (ru) f (pešnja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шиљак за лед m

  Roman: šiljak za led m

• Spanish: punzón de hielo m, picahielos (es) m
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Udmurt: пырич (pyrić)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Verb

icepick (third-person singular simple present icepicks, present participle icepicking, simple past and past participle icepicked)

1. (transitive) To break or stab with an icepick.