death cookie
n.— «Golf-ball sized chunks of frozen snow on a trail are often referred to as death cookies in the East; Westerners tend to call them chicken heads.» —“Finding Uniformity in the Lexicon of Snow” by Barbara Lloyd New York Times Feb. 27, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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