Noun

(en noun)

(nonstandard) A champion.

* 1912 , , The Prince and Betty , ch. 19:

"He could whip a dozen Cyclone Dicks in the same evening with his eyes shut."

"He's the next champeen ," admitted the first speaker.

* 1917 , , The Definite Object , ch. 24:

"You're right, me lad, I was the best fightin' man, the greatest champeen as ever was."

* 1920 , , The Big-Town Round-Up , Ch. 1:

"I'd take a li'l' bet that New York ain't lookin' for no champeen ropers or bronco-busters," said Stace.

* 1991 , " Entertainment: Will Tyson Do The Encores?," Time , 12 Aug:

In this corner, the operatic heavyweight from Modena, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti! And in this corner, that Iberian emoter, champeen tenor Placido Domingo!

* 2005 , Paul Oerjuerge, " Armstrong untouchable to the end," The Sun (San Bernadino, USA), 24 July (retrieved 18 Oct 2010):

So, there he goes, riding off into the golden sunset of history. Lance Armstrong, champeen of the cycling world.

Noun

(en noun)

Something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.

* , as explained in Alanna Nash, The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley , Simon and Schuster (2003), ISBN 978-0-7432-1301-1, page 155:

¶ The coup de grâce of Parker’s little folly was the club’s slickly produced rule book, which the Colonel called a Confidential Report Dealing with Advanced Techniques of Member Snowers , prepared by a team “notably skilled in evasiveness and ineptitude.”

* 1971 , John Oliver Killens, The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd , Coffee House Press (2002), ISBN 978-1-56689-119-6, page 148:

There was snow out on the Harlem streets, and inside the Lovejoys,(SIC) Ben Ali did a snow job on her Highness, Lady Daphne. And it required a lot of snowing by a champeen snower ; the Lady was nobody’s fool.

* 1979 , Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao (translators), , New Directions Publishing (2004), ISBN 978-0-8112-1552-7, page 301:

Hsin-Mei said, “ When I was in America, people used to call the Foreign Students Summer Club the ‘Big Three Conference’: the show-offs, the suckers, and the—uh—the girl-snowers .”

* 1986 , Jane Louise Curry, The Lotus Cup , Atheneum, ISBN 9780689503849, page 43:

Maybe, Corry thought, that was what gardeners tended to in wintertime: snow. Would that make them “snowers ?” or “snowmen?”

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, year=2003 , date=December 7 , author=SDicato , title=Lobsters , newsgroup=rec.motorcycles.harley citation , passage=Cant ride with all the snow but took a walk on the beach after kicking ass with the 8hp snower blower...picked up 45 lobsters..nice eating all the tails at once }}

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, year=2004 , date=December 26 , author=Wolf Kirchmeir , title=Re: Knowledge's Discretion , newsgroup=comp.ai.philosophy citation , passage=Mind you, when I was a child, I was told a charming story about Frau Holle, who was the snower - when she shook out the duvets of the people who lived above the sky, the feathers that flew came to earth as snow. }}

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, year=2006 , date=December 12 , author="Stormin Mormon" , title=Re: FLOMAX for 2 stage snow blower , newsgroup=alt.home.repair citation , passage=My blow snower is a very old Toro which requires the gas oil mix.}}