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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cold snap
noun
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▪ A bout of selling on the stock exchange, perhaps, or a cold snap that reopens the fuel price issue.
▪ A week into April it snowed deeply, half-thawed, and froze in a cold snap.
▪ Despite the cold snap, a white Christmas was an unlikely prospect for most people.
▪ The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years.
▪ They seemed to be talking about the recent cold snap.
Wiktionary
cold snap

n. (context idiomatic English) A period of exceptionally cold weather.

WordNet
cold snap

n. a spell of cold weather [syn: cold spell]

Wikipedia
Cold snap (disambiguation)

A cold snap, also known as a cold wave, is a period of intensely cold and dry weather

Cold snap may also refer to:

  • Coldsnap, an expansion set for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering from the Ice Age block
  • Coldsnap, a member of DC Comics Masters of Disaster supervillain team
  • Cold Snap (album), the first full-length album released by the Weeping Tile
  • "Cold Snap" (Heroes), an episode from the fourth season of the TV series Heroes
Cold Snap (album)

Cold Snap is a 1996 album by Weeping Tile. The band's first major label album, it features a somewhat more rock-oriented sound than the band's debut independent release.

Cold Snap (Heroes)

"Cold Snap" is the twentieth episode of the third season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes and fifty-fourth episode overall. The episode aired on March 23, 2009, and marks the return of writer Bryan Fuller.

Usage examples of "cold snap".

The cold snap had given way to balmy days of warmth and moist breezes that carried the scents of both sea and forest.

On the drive back, Lydia, wearing the flowered silk dress Kitty had grabbed from her closet-which, in addition to being all wrong for the occasion, was now miles too big-turned away from the backseat window shed been staring out of to remark pleasantly that she was looking forward to seeing if the begonias on her porch had come back after that cold snap last winter.

I looked into the face of the son I had never seen or claimed, and a connection suddenly formed like the cold snap of a manacle.

Nor did the freeze let up after a few days, like our usual cold snap.

Her voice chilled several degrees, just the kind of cold snap that wrought damage.

Tothas assured him it was an unseasonal cold snap that would ease—.

Tothas assured him it was an unseasonal cold snap that would easefor a time, at leastsoon, but that was scant comfort as he watched his breath plume and felt the ground like iron under his feet.

Tothas assured him it was an unseasonal cold snap that would ease-for a time, at least-soon, but that was scant comfort as he watched his breath plume and felt the ground like iron under his feet.

We drifted toward the Equinox very slowly, trapped in an unrelenting cold snap.