snowflake

(special) snowflake

A derisive term for a person who acts or is judged to act entitled to special treatment or opportunities. Generations of students before you have read this book with no gripes about its content, and you will too—you're not special snowflakes.
See also: snowflake

snow

slang Cocaine. Hey man, can you score me some snow for this weekend? I dabbled a bit with snow when I was in college, but I mostly just stick to pot.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

snow

1. n. deceitful talk; deception. All I heard for an hour was snow. Now, what’s the truth?
2. tv. to attempt to deceive someone. (see also snowed.) You can try to snow me if you want, but I’m onto your tricks.
3. and snowball and snowflakes and snow stuff n. a powdered or crystalline narcotic: morphine, heroin, or cocaine. (Now almost always the latter.) The price of snow stuff has come down a lot as South America exports more of it.

snowflakes

verb
See snow
See also: snowflake
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (special) snowflake
  • snowflakes
  • special
  • social justice warrior
  • reasonable person
  • Stacy
  • bougie
  • buzhie
  • professional victim
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But today "snowflake" has fallen into such common usage that it now no longer means anything at all, other than "you disagree with me, so I'm going to call you a name".
Claire Fox, director and founder of the British think tank Academy of Ideas, in her book I Find That Offensive blasts the young members of this "generation snowflake." She calls the generation of young people "easily offended and thin-skinned." This culture of censoring anything the young deems offensive promotes the closing down of free speech.
Thomas More, although he was the king's chancellor and friend, was no snowflake. Of course, he was beheaded; but his head now wears the halo of a saint.
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