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snowdropping

snowdropping is the present participle and gerund of snowdrop.

Meaning of snowdrop

Verb

snowdrop (third-person singular simple present snowdrops, present participle snowdropping, simple past and past participle snowdropped)

  1. (Australia, ambitransitive, slang) To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
    • MS: There was a lot of snowdropping in those days? / SL: Oh, I've never actually stooped to snowdropping; I used to go into shops. Boosting, man, boosting. But you learn how to survive.1989, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, volume 49, Sydney: Australian English Association, →OCLC, page 561

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Questions about snowdropping

What is snowdropping the present participle and gerund of?
Snowdropping is the present participle and gerund of snowdrop.

Words near snowdropping in the dictionary

  1. snowdrop windflower
  2. snowdrop windflowers
  3. snowdropped
  4. snowdropper
  5. snowdroppers
  6. snowdropping
  7. snowdrops
  8. Snowe
  9. snowed
  10. snowed down
  11. snowed in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snowdropping (page history and authors); snowdrop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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