snow
snow / snō/ • n. 1. atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer: we were trudging through deep snow | the first snow of the season. 2. something that resembles snow in color or texture, in particular: ∎ a mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal. ∎ inf. cocaine. ∎ a dessert or other dish resembling snow: vanilla snow. ∎ a frozen gas resembling snow: carbon dioxide snow.• v. 1. [intr.] (it snows, it is snowing, etc.) snow falls: it's not snowing so heavily now. ∎ (be snowed in) be confined or blocked by a large quantity of snow: I was snowed in for a week. ∎ [tr.] fig. used to describe the arrival of an overwhelming quantity of something: in the last week it had snowed letters and business. ∎ [tr.] sprinkle or scatter (something), causing it to fall like snow: the ceiling is snowing green flakes of paint onto the seats. 2. [tr.] inf. mislead or charm (someone) with elaborate and insincere words: they would snow the public into believing that all was well.PHRASAL VERBS: snow someone under (usu. be snowed under) overwhelm someone with a large quantity of something, esp. work: he's been snowed under with urgent cases.DERIVATIVES: snow·less adj.snow·like / -ˌlīk/ adj.