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snowicane en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of snow + hurricane.

Meanings

1. A hurricane or other such tropical storm which precipitates snow.
   • … it’s nice to think about baseball in the calm before the snow-ricane we are about to allegedly have. 2010, https://web.archive.org/web/20160310091618/http://www.thelosscolumn.com/2010/orioles-early-worry/
   • 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. 1994, Chinese literature:
   • The giant storm — dubbed a “Snowicane” — was coming up the East Coast like a steamroller in overdrive. 1993, American Philatelic Association, The American philatelist:
   • It's pretty apparent that Craig the weatherman was not in my Brooklyn neighborhood because we had a full-blown snowicane. 2011, Todd Starnes, Dispatches from Bitter America:

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