superblizzard

English

Alternative forms

  • super-blizzard

Etymology

From super- +‎ blizzard.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suːpəɹˈblɪ.zəd/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

superblizzard (plural superblizzards)

  1. (rare) A very severe blizzard.
    • 1975, Ski‎[1], page 89:
      The North Carolina mountain country is superb, sensational, beautiful and beneficent; there are none of your wild 100-mile-an-hour Mt. Washington superblizzards here.
    • 1998, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Richard Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years‎[2], Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 669:
      Paralyzed by the superblizzards: 774
    • 2003, Ben Bova, Saturn: A Novel of the Ringed Planet, Volume 13‎[3], Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 300:
      But standing in the middle of a superblizzard and allowing himself to be pelted by supersonic stainless steel ball bearings, that was something else.
    • 2004 May 17, Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, in time.com‎[4], archived from the original on 17 April 2016:
      In The Day After Tomorrow, New York City is first flooded by a giant wave and then freeze-dried by a superblizzard.
    • 2019, Scott Mackay, Omega Sol‎[5], JABberwocky Literary Agency, Incorporated, →ISBN:
      The anchorwoman said meteorlogists were worried by this unusual convergence of cold and hot air masses, feared this new possibility everyone was talking about, the superblizzard.
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