snowdropper

1 definition

0—

#1·7h ago

(Australia, slang) One who snowdrops (one who steals clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.

Origin: From . According to Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the term was originally used in 19th-century Britain to refer to people stealing clothes from poverty, rather than for fetishistic purposes. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Was this helpful?

Comments (0)

No comments yet — say something.

Have a better definition?

Add your own interpretation of "snowdropper".

Add definition

👗About Fashion & Lifestyle slang

The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.

See all Fashion & Lifestyle slang on Slangora.