snowball
IPA: snˈoʊbɔɫ
noun
- 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.
- A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
- (figuratively) Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
- A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
- (US) A type of ice dessert.
- A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
verb
- (intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.
- (intransitive) To play at throwing snowballs.
- (transitive) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
- (intransitive, slang) 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.
adjective
- Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.
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Examples of "snowball" in Sentences
- Kids made several snowballs.
- He got injured by a snowball.
- Someone threw a snowball at me.
- How many snowballs do you have
- Let's keep the snowball rolling.
- The snowball has left the building.
- The snowball hits Pingu on the head.
- Kids are having fun with making snowballs.
- The snowball narrowly misses as the Seagull takes off.
- The snowball is rolling down the hill, gaining strength.
- Lets see now, if the mass of the snowball is 'm,' and its velocity,
- Every problem was conveniently explained as the subversive act of Snowball.
- The snowball is rolling so fast now, let’s just continue watching him throw himself in front it.
- “Someday, I’d like another cat,” she continues, the word snowball resonating for her too with memories.
- I'm not a soldier -- I don't even like getting in snowball fights -- so I can only look at this film as a movie fan.
- You would find, rather, that with every single step you take, the need for further steps increases in snowball-like fashion.
- Maier's photographs to a blog , which he describes as a snowball that just started rolling and has just been building ever since.
- While it's common to think that the snowball is getting larger, it is also true that, for any specific instant of time, the snowball cannot be larger than its present size.
- When I turn a corner in snowball days, the boys with bulging pockets see a head held high and a step unquickened, but I know that I cringe inwardly; and this private mortification I set down against old
- As I walked down at this place I was walled on both sides by those inaccessible high rocky barren hills wch hangs over ones head in some places and appears very terrible, and from them springs many Little Currents of water from the sides and Clefts, wch trickle down to some Lower part where it runs swiftly over the stones and shelves in the way, wch makes a pleasant Rush and murmuring noise, and Like a snowball is Encreased by Each spring trickling down on either side of those hills, and so descends into the bottoms wch are a moorish ground in wch in many places the waters stand, and so forme some of those Lakes as it did here.
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