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icebreaker

 noun
     
Related topics: Water
ice‧break‧er [countable]
1 something that you say or do to make people less nervous when they first meet:
This game is an effective icebreaker at the beginning of a semester.

➔ break the ice

at break1 (29)
2TTW a ship that cuts a passage through floating ice
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