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snow

  [snoh]
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–noun
1. Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
2. these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface.
3. the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall.
4. something resembling a layer of these flakes in whiteness, softness, or the like: the snow of fresh linen.
5. Literary.
a. white blossoms.
b. the white color of snow.
6. Slang. cocaine or heroin.
7. white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal. Compare hash 1 (def. 5).
–verb (used without object)
8. to send down snow; fall as snow.
9. to descend like snow.
–verb (used with object)
10. to let fall as or like snow.
11. Slang.
a. to make an overwhelming impression on: The view really snowed them.
b. to persuade or deceive: She was snowed into believing everything.
—Verb phrase
12. snow under,
a. to cover with or bury in snow.
b. to overwhelm with a larger amount of something than can be conveniently dealt with.
c. to defeat overwhelmingly.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE snāw; c. D sneeuw, G Schnee, ON snǣr, Goth snaiws, L nix (gen. nivis), Gk níps (acc. nípha), OCS sněgŭ; (v.) ME snowen, deriv. of the n.; r. ME snewen, OE snīwan; c. OHG snīwan (G schneien), MLG, MD snīen

Related forms:
snowless, adjective
snowlike, adjective
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snow   (snō)   
n.  

  1. Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes.

  2. A falling of snow; a snowstorm.

  3. Something resembling snow, as:

    1. The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception.

    2. Slang Cocaine.

    3. Slang Heroin.

v.   snowed, snow·ing, snows

v.   intr.
To fall as or in snow.
v.   tr.

  1. To cover, shut off, or close off with snow: We were snowed in.

  2. Slang To overwhelm with insincere talk, especially with flattery.

Phrasal Verb(s):
snow under

  1. To overwhelm: I was snowed under with work.

  2. To defeat by a very large margin.


[Middle English, from Old English snāw; see sneigwh- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
snow

  1. n.
    deceitful talk; deception. : All I heard for an hour was snow. Now, what's the truth?
  2. tv.
    to attempt to deceive someone. (See also snowed.) : You can try to snow me if you want, but I'm onto your tricks.
  3. n.
    and snowball; snowflakes; snow stuff. a powdered or crystalline narcotic: morphine, heroin, or cocaine. (Now almost always the latter.) : The price of snow stuff has come down a lot as South America exports more of it.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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snowed

  1. mod.
    deceived. : He was one snowed coach. He still doesn't know what really happened.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

snow  (v.)
c.1300, replacing O.E. sniwan, which would have yielded modern snew (which existed as a parallel form until 17c. and, in Yorkshire, even later), from the root of snow (n.).
"Also þikke as snow þat snew,
Or al so hail þat stormes blew."
[Robert Mannyng of Brunne, transl. Wace's "Chronicle," c.1330]
The figurative sense of "overwhelm" is 1880, Amer.Eng., in phrase to snow (someone) under. Snow job "strong, persistent persuasion in a dubious cause" is World War II armed forces slang, probably from the same metaphoric image.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: snow
Pronunciation: 'snO
Function: noun
1 : any of various congealed or crystallized substances resembling snow in appearance snow>
2 slang a : COCAINE b : HEROIN
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Science Dictionary
snow   (snō)  Pronunciation Key 
Precipitation that falls to earth in the form of ice crystals that have complex branched hexagonal patterns. Snow usually falls from stratus and stratocumulus clouds, but it can also fall from cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds.
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