snow eater

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   a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

   Synonymschinookchinook wind

   Broaderwind

Questions about snow eater

What does snow eater mean?

snow eater means "a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies".

What is another word for snow eater?

Close synonyms include chinook, chinook wind. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is snow eater a common word?

snow eater is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.