n. deceitful talk; deception. : All I heard for an hour was snow. Now, what's the truth?
tv. to attempt to deceive someone. (See also snowed.) : You can try to snow me if you want, but I'm onto your tricks.
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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Overwhelm, overpower, as in I can't go; I'm just snowed under with work, or We were snowed under by more votes than we could have anticipated. This expression alludes to being buried in snow. [Late 1800s]
