snowball

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A pyramid of snowballs usable in snowball fight.
A big snowball.

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Singular
snowball

Plural
snowballs

snowball (plural snowballs)

  1. A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.
  2. A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
  3. (figuratively) Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
    • 2005, Eldad Ben-Yosef, The Evolution of the US Airline Industry
      Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...

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Infinitive
to snowball

Third person singular
snowballs

Simple past
snowballed

Past participle
snowballed

Present participle
snowballing

to snowball (third-person singular simple present snowballs, present participle snowballing, simple past and past participle snowballed)

  1. (intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.
    The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
  2. (intransitive) To play at throwing snowballs.
  3. (intransitive) (sexual slang) To receive a man's ejaculate in one's mouth, and then to pass it back and forth between one's mouth and his.

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