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plural icebergs
(obsolete) The seaward end of a glacier.
A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf examples
(US, slang) An aloof person.
(figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water. quotations examples
He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.
2013, “How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back”, in The Economist