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snowicane

noun

Etymology

Blend of snow + hurricane.

  1. derived from *hurakā✻
  2. borrowed from huracán
  3. compounded as snowicane — “snow + hurricane”

Definitions

  1. A hurricane or other such tropical storm which precipitates snow.

    • The giant storm — dubbed a “Snowicane” — was coming up the East Coast like a steamroller in overdrive.
    • The snowicane that had raged for three days and three nights had left him as bad off as the pheasants, and it wasn't any easier for him to allay his hunger pains in the vast wasteland of snow than it was for them.
    • … it’s nice to think about baseball in the calm before the snow-ricane we are about to allegedly have.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA