death cookie
n.— «On any given day, the top of the mountain can be littered with the frozen snowballs called death cookies.» —“Great Day At Alyeska Is Best Ski Day Departing Alaskan Ever Had” by Craig Medred Anchorage Daily News (Alaska) Jan. 23, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
After our conversation about the expression dingle day, a term used by workers at a research station in Antarctica to denote bright, sunny weather, a listener offers a possible explanation for this term. It may derive from the idea of the skies...
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