Usually means: Initiate conversation, ease initial tension.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. break the ice: Merriam-Webster
  2. break the ice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break the ice: Collins English Dictionary
  4. break the ice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. break the ice: Wiktionary
  6. break the ice: Dictionary.com
  7. Break the Ice (Britney Spears song), Break the Ice (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Break the Ice: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. break the ice: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. break the ice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break the ice: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. break the ice: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break the ice: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (break the ice)

verb:  (idiomatic) To start to get to know people to avoid social awkwardness and formality.
verb:  (idiomatic) To introduce conversation.
verb:  To surmount initial difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, the, ice.

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