Snowball

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A mass of soft, wet snow packed into a ball that can be thrown, as in play.
  • n. Chiefly Southern U.S. A cup of crushed or shaved ice flavored with colored syrup.
  • n. Any of several plants having rounded clusters of white flowers, as the guelder rose and certain species of the arrowwood.
  • verb-intransitive. To grow rapidly in significance, importance, or size: problems that snowballed by the hour.
  • verb-intransitive. To throw snowballs.
  • v. To cause to grow or increase rapidly.
  • v. To throw snowballs at.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
  • n. Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
  • n. A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
  • v. To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.
  • v. To play at throwing snowballs.
  • v. (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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
  • n. The Guelder-rose.
  • n. a shrub of the genus Viburnum, having large clusters of white flowers.
  • v. To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
  • verb-intransitive. To throw snowballs.
  • verb-intransitive. To increase in magnitude at an accelerating rate, achieving large proportions; -- by analogy with a snowball rolling down a steep hill, causing a large snow slide.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A ball of snow; a round mass of snow pressed or rolled together.
  • n. The cultivated form of the shrub Viburnum Opulus; the guelder-rose.
  • n. In cookery:
  • n. A pudding made by putting rice which has been swelled in milk round a pared and cored apple, tying up in a cloth, and boiling well.
  • n. White of egg beaten stiff and put in spoonfuls to float on the top of custard.
  • n. Rice boiled, pressed into shape in a cup, and variously served.
  • To pelt with snowballs.
  • To throw snowballs.
  • n. A delicate pudding steamed in a mold, then rolled in powdered sugar, and served with wine sauce.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)
  • v. increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate
  • n. plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions
  • n. ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce
  • n. ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup
  • v. throw snowballs at
    • Equivalent
    snowball tree   
    Verb Form
    snowballed    snowballing    snowballs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ball    increase    sand verbena    frozen dessert    bombard   
    Cross Reference
    wild snowball    little snowball    the snowball system   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    syringa    peony   
     
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