snowbird

snow +‎ bird

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsnəʊbɜːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊbɝːd/

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snowbird (plural snowbirds)

1. A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.
2. A bird seen primarily in the winter time.
3. The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis).
4. A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter; one who overwinters elsewhere.

   Coordinate terms: sunbird, year-rounder

5. (US military slang) One who enlists in fall to desert after winter.
6. (slang) A cocaine user.

• (cocaine user): snow bunny

• blue snowbird

• junco

• Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, page 104

• Snowbird (person) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia