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snowbire
noun- a person from the northern US or Canada who migrates to Florida or elsewhere in the southern US during winter US, 1979
Originally applied to men who enlisted in the army just before winter, and then to workers who flocked south in the winter, and then to tourists. - He was an innocuous, round little man who was jolliest when Florida was crawling with snowbirds. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 29, 1986
- Not much traffic now, huh? The snowbirds’ve all gone home. I don’t know why anybody wants to live up north. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 48, 1991
- a cocaine user or addict US, 1914
Building on SNOW (cocaine) and reaching to pun with the more conventional sense of the term “snowbird”. - — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 17, 1945
- My mother sells hops to the snowbirds. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 38, 1947
- The little guy’s a snowbird and he’s hopped. — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 96, 1952
- She was one of the few snowbirds who thought she was snowing the snowman and the juiceman. She wasn’t snowing anybody. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 23, 1988
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 107, 1996
- cocaine UK
- — Nick Constable, This is Cocaine, p. 181, 2002
- a glob of snow that sticks under a fender CANADA
- In the north, a snowbird can be a chunk of ice or frozen snow stuck under the car’s fender. — Lewis Poteet, 1978
- We ought only to think of snowbirds as Canadians who head south in the winter. — Bill Casselman, Canadian Words, p. 67, 1995
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