snowball

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see also: Snowball

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈsnəʊbɔːl/
• (America) enPR: snōʹbôl, IPA: /ˈsnoʊbɔl/
• (cot-caught, Canada) enPR: snōʹbôl, IPA: /ˈsnoʊbɑl/

Noun

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...

4. A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
5. (US) A type of ice dessert.
6. A type of cake.

Translations

• French: boule de neige, balle de neige (Quebec)
• German: Schneeball
• Italian: palla di neve
• Portuguese: bola de neve
• Russian: снежо́к
• Spanish: bola de nieve

Translations

• Russian: снежо́к

Verb

snowball (snowballs, present participle snowballing; 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. (transitive) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
4. (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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Snowball

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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