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snowbird
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Wikipedia
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Snowbird is a band consisting of former Cocteau Twins instrumentalist Simon Raymonde , also the founder of the London-based label Bella Union , and vocalist Stephanie Dosen . Dosen, originally a member of the 1990s techno band Virus, sang live with Massive ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After all the snowbirds, Tourons, sissies and failed Californios dry up and blow away. ▪ Baseball was a one-month gig that left like the rest of snowbirds come April.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A bird, ''Junco hyemalis'', the dark-eyed junco. 2 A bird seen primarily in the winter time. 3 The snow bunting (''Plectrophenax nivalis''). 4 A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter. 5 (context ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also snow-bird , from 1680s in reference to various types of birds associated with snow, from snow (n.) + bird (n.1). From 1923 in reference to northern U.S. workers who went to the South in the winter months to work; by 1979 in reference to tourists.
Usage examples of snowbird.
Jonthose snowbirds would have left me in that sandpile until all hell froze over.
It would be easy to blame the snowbirds for the mayhem against the manatees, but Hamilton said this is not fair.
Think of how many freezing snowbirds would try to weasel a free vacation to Florida this way!
Bare lots were sold to aspiring snowbirds for three to five times the true resale value.
The snowbirds live like gypsies: some in expensive RVs, some in cardboard shacks.
Rudy Graveline could not accommodate all the snowbirds, but he did his damnedest.
They've all ready lost Jokertown to the Demon Princes and the other joker gangs, and a Chinatown gang called the Egrets or Snowbirds or something like that has run them right out of Chinatown.