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snowbirds

snowbirds is the plural of snowbird.

Meaning of snowbird

Noun

snowbird (plural snowbirds)

  1. A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.
  2. A migratory 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; one who overwinters elsewhere.
  5. (US, slang) One who enlists in fall to desert after winter.
  6. (slang) Someone who uses cocaine illicitly.

Questions about snowbirds

What is snowbirds the plural of?
Snowbirds is the plural of snowbird.

Words near snowbirds in the dictionary

  1. snowbiking
  2. snowbillies
  3. snowbilly
  4. snowbird
  5. snowbirding
  6. snowbirds
  7. snowblade
  8. snowbladed
  9. snowblader
  10. snowbladers
  11. snowblades

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