snowdrop

noun1

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   Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.

   • A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled. — 1722

verb1

1. •
   (Australia, 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

noun1

1. •
   A Royal Air Force police officer.