snow someone in or up Definition

snow
noun

1. Precipitation in the form of aggregations of ice crystals falling to the ground in soft white flakes, or lying on the ground as a soft white mass.
2. A fall of this.

Example: There's been a lot of snow this year
3. Any similar substance, such as carbonic acid snow which is frozen carbon dioxide.
4. colloq
A flickering speckled background on a TV or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal.
5. slang
Cocaine.

verb

intr
snowed, snowing
1. Said of snow: to fall.

Idiom: be snowed under

Be overwhelmed with work, etc.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon snaw.

Phrasal Verb: snow someone in or up

To isolate or block them with snow.
Example: We were snowed in for a week