Arlington County is seeking fresh flurry of winter wisecracks to name its snowplows and salt trucks.

The “Name That Plow!” contest returns, allowing residents to suggest monikers for the Northern Virginia county’s fleet of snow-response vehicles. The inaugural competition last year yielded more than 1,200 responses. Some referenced musicians new and old: Saline Dion, Sleetwood Mac and Sabrina Carpenbrrr. Others paid homage to historical figures with Sleddy Roosevelt and Clearopathra.

And some were painfully D.C. — see Alex Snowvechkin and Smithsnownian.

“We were completely floored,” Kiara Candelaria Nieves, a spokesperson for the county's department of environmental services, said of the volume of responses last year.

The three most common submissions last year were Plowy McPlowface, M

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