# snowdropper

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. One who snowdrops (one who steals clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.

## Etymology
From snowdrop + -er.
According to Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the term was originally used in 19th-century Britain to refer to people stealing clothes from poverty, rather than for fetishistic purposes.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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