Snowball

Noun

 * 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)  Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
 * 4) * 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...
 * 1) A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.

Derived terms

 * a snowball’s chance, a snowball’s chance in an oven, a snowball’s chance in hell
 * besnowball
 * cast snowballs
 * Chinese snowball
 * New York snowball
 * snowball bush
 * snowball cactus
 * Snowball Earth hypothesis


 * snowball effect
 * snowball fight
 * snowball hammer
 * snowball marches
 * snowball opacity
 * snowball prime
 * snowball sampling
 * snowball tree

Verb

 * 1)  To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.
 * The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
 * 1)  To play at throwing snowballs.
 * 2)  (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.

Derived terms

 * snowballing

Thesaurus
accrue, accumulate, accumulation, acervation, advance, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, appreciate, augment, avalanche, ball, balloon, bead, blizzard, bloat, boom, breed, broaden, build, bulk, chunk, congeries, conglobation, conglobulate, conglomerate, conglomeration, crescendo, crystal, cumulation, develop, dilate, distend, driven snow, enlarge, expand, extend, fill out, flake, flurry, gain, gain strength, gathering, get ahead, globe, glomeration, go up, gob, granular snow, greaten, grow, hunk, igloo, increase, intensify, lump, mantle of snow, mass, mogul, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, puff up, rise, run up, shoot up, slosh, slush, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, sphere, spherify, spread, stockpile, strengthen, stretch, swell, tumefy, upsurge, wad, wax, wet snow, widen

Etymology
From snowball:, snawball:, equivalent to.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: elur-bola
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: bola de neu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 雪球
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: neĝobulo
 * Finnish:
 * French:, balle de neige
 * Georgian: თოვლის გუნდა,
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: כדור שלג
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: palla di neve
 * Japanese: 雪玉, 雪つぶて,
 * Luxembourgish: Schnéiball, Schnéiklatz
 * Polish: śnieżka, kulka śnieżna, kulka śniegowa
 * Portuguese: bola de neve
 * Romanian: bulgăre de zăpadă
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: грудва
 * Roman: grudva
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: kar topu


 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: スノーボール

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: 雪だるま式に増える


 * Finnish: ,
 * Japanese: をする


 * Swedish: ha snöbollskrig
 * Turkmen: gar zyňyşmak