1. Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
   "the snow this month is below average";
   - snowfall
    
2. A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
   "A blanket of snow covered the landscape"
    
3. [slang] A street name for cocaine
   "The dealer referred to the illegal substance as snow";
   - coke [slang], blow [slang], nose candy [slang], C [slang], gak [informal]

1. Fall as snow
   "It was snowing all night"
    
2. [N. Amer, informal] Deceive or trick someone, especially through deliberate misrepresentation
   - bamboozle [informal], hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes [informal], lead by the nose, play false

1. English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
   - C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester

Derived forms: snowed, snowing, snows

Type of: author, betray, cocaine, come down, deceive, downfall, fall, layer, lead astray, precipitate, precipitation, writer

Part of: snowball

Encyclopedia: Snow, Richard