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
The words tough, through, and dough all end in O-U-G-H. So why don’t they rhyme? A lively new book addresses the many quirks of English by explaining the history of words and phrases. And: have you ever been in a situation where a group makes...
A member of the ski patrol at Vermont’s Sugarbush Resort shares some workplace slang. Boilerplate denotes hard-packed snow with a ruffled pattern that makes skis chatter, death cookies are random chunks that could cause an accident, and...