iceberg
/ˈaɪsbɝɡ/ noun B1- A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf · The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
- An aloof person.
- An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show.
- A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem. · Near-synonym: rabbit hole· Do some digging into that politician's past life and associates, and you'll see that the iceberg runs deep.
- 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.· Today we're gonna talk about the Star Wars iceberg.
Plural icebergs
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