icing sugar

1. 1.

   finely powdered sugar used to make icing

   Broaderpowdered sugar

Questions about icing sugar

What does icing sugar mean?

icing sugar means "finely powdered sugar used to make icing".

Is icing sugar a common word?

icing sugar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.