snowslide

English

Etymology

From snow +‎ slide. Compare landslide.

Noun

snowslide (plural snowslides)

1. An avalanche of snow
   • 2006, Kirill Ya Kondratyev, ‎Vladimir F. Krapivin, ‎Costas A. Varostos, Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global Ecodynamics - Page 26:

     For instance, on 27 January 1993, on the Trans-Caucasian Highway, 17 people were buried under a snowslide.

Translations

avalanche of snow

• Bashkir: күскен (küsken), ҡар ишелмәһе (qar işelməhe), шыуышма (şıwışma), лайғы (layğı)
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• Italian: slavina (it) f