snow out
See also: snowout
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snow out (third-person singular simple present snows out, present participle snowing out, simple past and past participle snowed out)
- (idiomatic) To cover with snow.
- 1855, Charles Dickens, "The Guest", The Holly-Tree Inn
- The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; landmarks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one:
- 1855, Charles Dickens, "The Guest", The Holly-Tree Inn
- (usually in passive) To prevent (an event) from occurring because of snow.
- 2003, David Davis, Of Preachers and Pagans:
- It snowed during the second week of February, snowed Thursday and Friday, snowed out the Friday night basketball game with Bethel Christian Academy, snowed until Saturday morning, then turned extremely cold
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Related terms
- snow in