snownoun
uk/snəʊ/us/snoʊ/snow noun (WEATHER)
A1 [ U ] the small, soft, white pieces of ice that sometimes fall from the sky when it is cold, or the white layer on the ground and other surfaces that it forms:
[ C ] a single fall of snow:
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- The snow came down during the night.
- By morning there was a light covering of snow.
- Many villages have been cut off by the heavy snow.
- There was a dusting of snow on the lawn.
- Snow had been falling steadily all day.
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Precipitation: snow & ice
- crevasse
- freeze
- freezing
- frost
- frosty
- glacial
- glaciation
- ground frost
- hailstorm
- hoarfrost
- ice cap
- Jack Frost
- moraine
- pack ice
- permafrost
- slushy
- snow line
- snowdrift
- snowfall
- snowflake
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snow noun (DRUG)
[ U ] slang → cocaine
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Specific types of drug
- amyl nitrite
- antiretroviral
- blunt
- cisplatin
- coke
- corticosteroid
- designer drug
- dope
- downer
- hash
- junk
- marijuana
- methamphetamine
- mind-altering
- narcotic
- pep pill
- popper
- skunkweed
- stimulant
- weed
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snowverb
uk/snəʊ/us/snoʊ/snow verb (WEATHER)
A2 [ I ] If it snows, snow falls from the sky:
C2 to be unable to travel away from a place because of very heavy snow:
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- It had snowed heavily during the night and in the morning the garden was a white fairyland.
- Do you think it will snow this Christmas?
- I love it when it snows.
- It very rarely snows in October.
- It snowed heavily all day.
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Precipitation: snow & ice
- crevasse
- freeze
- freezing
- frost
- frosty
- glacial
- glaciation
- ground frost
- hailstorm
- hoarfrost
- ice cap
- Jack Frost
- moraine
- pack ice
- permafrost
- slushy
- snow line
- snowdrift
- snowfall
- snowflake
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snow verb (TRICK)
[ T ] US informal to deceive or trick someone by talking a lot or by giving them a lot of information:
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- lie
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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