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plural snowmen
A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth). examples
(baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs). quotations examples
[The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.
1996 June 3, Buster Olney, “Chat with Sparky helps 'useless' Johnson Dejected O's manager gets lift from ex-Tigers boss”, in The Baltimore Sun (quoting B. J. Surhoff)
"Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said. "Then Stone had to stay out there and suck it up for us […] "
2005 June 26, Dayton Daily News, page 44
For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.
2018, Andre Huu, The Round of Your Life: A Book on Golf and Life, Archway Publishing
(slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
(rare) An attractive but heartless man. quotations
A few years ago there lived a loverBy the name of Jimmy JonesWho really snowed the girls and left them coldAnd gained the title of "The Great Snowman".
1961, John D. Loudermilk (lyrics and music), “The Great Snowman”