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snowbird

[snoh-burd]

snow·bird

[snoh-burd]
noun
3.
Informal. a person who vacations in or moves to a warmer climate during cold weather.
4.
Slang. cokehead.

Origin:
1665–75; snow + bird
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Snowbird is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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snowbird (ˈsnəʊˌbɜːd)
 
n
1.  another name for the snow bunting
2.  slang (US) a person addicted to cocaine, or sometimes heroin

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