Usually means: Sudden, brief period of cold.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word cold snap:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold snap: Merriam-Webster
  2. cold snap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cold snap: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cold snap: Vocabulary.com
  5. cold snap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cold snap: Wiktionary
  7. cold snap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. cold snap: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cold snap: Dictionary.com
  10. Cold Snap (Heroes), Cold Snap (album), Cold snap (disambiguation), Cold snap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cold snap: Rhymezone
  12. cold snap: FreeDictionary.org
  13. cold snap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. cold snap: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. cold snap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cold snap: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cold snap)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A short and sudden period of cold weather.

Similar:
cold wave, cold spell, cold weather, snap, freeze, freeze-up, cold drop, cold treatment, coldspot, cold spot, more...

Opposite:
heat wave, warm spell, hot streak

Types:
blizzard, snowpocalypse, snowmageddon, polar vortex, more...

Adjectives:
hare, hottish, feverous, cold short, baltic, tumid, cold-short, adry, blighted, fevered, oppressive

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Similar:
cold wave, cold spell, cold weather, snap, freeze, freeze-up, cold drop, cold treatment, coldspot, cold spot, more...

Opposite:
heat wave, warm spell, hot streak

Types:
blizzard, snowpocalypse, snowmageddon, polar vortex, more...

Adjectives:
hare, hottish, feverous, cold short, baltic, tumid, cold-short, adry, blighted, fevered, oppressive



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