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icebergs

icebergs is the plural of iceberg.

Meaning of iceberg

Noun

iceberg (plural icebergs)

  1. (obsolete) The seaward end of a glacier.
  2. A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
    • The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
  3. (US, slang) An aloof person.
  4. (figuratively) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show.
    • 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 November 23, “How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2025
  5. (Internet, figuratively, slang) A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem.
    • Near-synonym: rabbit hole
    Synonyms:
    rabbit hole
    1. (Internet, broadly, figuratively, slang) A list, infographic, or other enumeration of such a topic and its subcomponents, often ordered into groups sorted by obscurity and bizarreness.
      • Check out the gaming iceberg on this post! There's some really freaky titles there that I've never heard of.

Phrases with icebergs

Questions about icebergs

What is icebergs the plural of?
Icebergs is the plural of iceberg.

Words near icebergs in the dictionary

  1. iceberg lettuces
  2. iceberg theory
  3. iceberg video
  4. iceberg videos
  5. iceberglike
  6. icebergs
  7. icebergy
  8. icebird
  9. icebirds
  10. iceblink
  11. iceblinks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: icebergs (page history and authors); iceberg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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