snow out
See also: snowout
English
Verb
- (idiomatic) To cover with snow.
- (Can we date this quote?) Charles Dickens, The Holly-Tree Inn
- The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; landmarks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one:
- (Can we date this quote?) Charles Dickens, The Holly-Tree Inn
- (usually in passive) To prevent people entering somewhere, 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
- 2003, David Davis, Of Preachers and Pagans
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