frozen chicken head
n.— «The mountain is empty, nearly. The shadows are lengthening, and the valley lies in darkness 2000 ft. below. The snow is hardening into icy chunks beneath our skis. “Frozen chicken heads,” Dave Monte calls them.» —“Alpine Heroes” by Jerry Beilinson Popular Mechanics Mar. 1, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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