Sekirov Dictionary

snowball

UK /ˈsnəʊbɔːl/US /ˈsnoʊbɔl/

noun 6
verb 4
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 2

noun6

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.
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(figurative) Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
- Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934... — 2005
(US) A type of ice dessert: a snow cone.
A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
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A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.
- It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.
(slang) A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.

verb4

To play at throwing snowballs.
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(figurative) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state.
- The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
(slang, vulgar) To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth.

adjective1

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Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.
- Scandal, with her, did not lose any of its usual snowball propensities, of gathering as it went. — 1837

forms

snowballed · snowballing · snowballs

Phrases with snowball

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