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snowplough parents

snowplough parents is the plural of snowplough parent.

Meaning of snowplough parent

Noun

snowplough parent (plural snowplough parents)

  1. British standard spelling of snowplow parent.
    • Making life safer and nicer for our children is a reasonable aspiration. Stripping it of any jeopardy is not. For one thing, the snowplough parent is almost always over-involved.2014 August 27, Anne McElvoy, “Watch out, snowploughers are at the school gates”, in Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2014, page 15, column 3

Questions about snowplough parents

What is snowplough parents the plural of?
Snowplough parents is the plural of snowplough parent.

Words near snowplough parents in the dictionary

  1. snowplane
  2. snowplanes
  3. snowplough
  4. snowplough parent
  5. snowplough parenting
  6. snowplough parents
  7. snowploughed
  8. snowploughing
  9. snowploughs
  10. snowplow
  11. snowplow parent

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