Definitions
a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere
Word origin
From ice + breaker, in the figurative sense from the expression to break the ice.
Used in a sentence
“The steel hulls of ice-breakers are much thicker than those of standard vessels.”
“My father's Bonneville was cutting its way toward us like an icebreaker moving through my whole state of consciousness.”
“The Australian Antarctic Division’s chartered icebreaker the Aurora Australis on a previous mission wedged in ice in Commonwealth Bay 10 nautical miles from Mawson’s Hut in Antarctica.”
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