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snowgo

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English

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Etymology

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From snow +‎ go.

Noun

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snowgo (plural snowgoes)

  1. Synonym of snowmobile.
    • 1985, David Boeri, People of the ice whale: Eskimos, white men, and the whale, page 156:
      Then they cinched the angyaqs up to their treaded snowgoes with a towline and ran full tilt beside the boats, holding onto the rails, as the snowgoes raced full speed to the boat racks.
    • 2003, Stan Jones, White Sky, Black Ice, →ISBN:
      But what about the spruce branch that didn't seem to have come from any of the trees near Aaron Stone's snowgo?
    • 2015, Seth Kantner, Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier, →ISBN:
      Kneeling on snow, I'm bent over my snowgo, shivering and greasy.

Verb

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snowgo (third-person singular simple present snowgoes, present participle snowgoing, simple past and past participle snowgoed)

  1. To travel by snowgo.
    • 2008, Seth Kantner, Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska, →ISBN, page 166:
      Afterward, I snowgo along the dunes, following a maze of wolf tracks west into the deep snow of an old burn.