snowdrop

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 n

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

Tufts of primroses grew under the still leafless trees; the hepatica had succeeded the snowdrop.

Alternative letter-case form of Snowdrop (“a Royal Air Force police officer”).

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.

‘Snowdropping’ is the business of some poor sods who, often from laundry drying on a clothes line, pinch items of ladies’ underwear, take them away and sniff them.

A Royal Air Force police officer.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Snowdrop.