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snow noun 1 precipitation in the form of aggregations of ice crystals falling to the ground in soft white flakes, or lying on the ground as a soft white mass. 2 a fall of this • There's been a lot of snow this year. 3 any similar substance, such as carbonic acid snow which is frozen carbon dioxide. 4 colloq a flickering speckled background on a TV or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal. 5 slang cocaine. verb (snowed, snowing) intrans said of snow: to fall. be snowed under be overwhelmed with work, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon snaw.
snow someone in or up to isolate or block them with snow • We were snowed in for a week. |
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