snowman

Etymology

* snow + -man. * (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.

noun

1. 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).
2. (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).
   [The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too. June 3 1996, 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 […]" June 26 2005, 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
3. (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
4. (rare) An attractive but heartless man.
   Coordinate term: ice queen
   A few years ago there lived a lover By the name of Jimmy Jones Who really snowed the girls and left them cold And gained the title of "The Great Snowman". 1961, John D. Loudermilk (lyrics and music), “The Great Snowman”