A fork of Rural Dictionary
To be severely intoxicated.
Carmela: Does this mean that my husband may not come out of his coma?
Doctor: Actually, now we’ve induced coma… he’s snowed with Ativan.
(from The Sopranos #67)
to be intoxicated, whether by alcohol, prescription drugs such as Ambien, or any other drug of choice
Nathan: "Do you remember our phone conversation last night?"
Marco: "No"
Nathan: "Well, that's probably because you were snowed."
Overwhelmed. To be majorly behind in your work. To have more to do than can be done. Carteret County, NC (Down East) old english.
Lordy, I'm so snowed I don't know what to do.
When one has been smoking marijuana and is at the point when he is sitting, and feels as though he is under a mound of snow. One can then give a sudden jerk to his whole body do shake it all off and feel normal again. If one can not muster a body shake, or it doesn't work, that person is then considered sanded.
Ask any hospital worker... this is when a person who is hooked up to system monitoring devices, dies. When they die, the monitor turns to snow - there's no information on it anymore.
When the nurse tripped on that cord, we all thought you got snowed... glad she plugged it back in quickly.
To overwhelm with insincere talk, especially with flattery.
In The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, the narrator tells about Stradlater's technique of "giving girls the time".
"But old Stradlater kept snowing her in this Abraham Lincoln, sincere voice, and finally there'd be this terrific silence in the back of the car."