snow job

noun

: an intensive effort at persuasion or deception

Examples of snow job in a Sentence

They'd been promised a big return on their investments, but all they got was a snow job.
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LoDo snow job Date: April 16, 2013 The Mets and Rockies woke up to 9 inches of snow but managed to play a doubleheader. Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2016 The presence of Darden, the races of the defendant and the victims and the claims of a political snow job all suggest that Buck’s will be the kind of high-current trial that occasionally convulses Los Angeles. Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of snow job was in 1943

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“Snow job.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snow%20job. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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