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Snowball   /snˈoʊbˌɔl/   Listen
noun
Snowball  n.  
1.
A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
2.
(Bot.) The Guelder-rose.
3.
(Bot.) A shrub of the genus Viburnum, having large clusters of white flowers.
Snowball bush or Snowball tree (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
a snowball's chance in hell, (Colloq.) no chance; an infinitesimal chance.


verb
Snowball  v. t.  (past & past part. snowballed; pres. part. snowballing)  To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.


Snowball  v. i.  
1.
To throw snowballs.
2.
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.





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"Snowball" Quotes from Famous Books



... I'm only half alive. The cold never agrees with me. (Looking at fire) That's not a very dangerous fire, an' I'm as cold as a snowball. ...
— Duty, and other Irish Comedies • Seumas O'Brien
... sternly, "I saw you throw a snowball. Aren't you ashamed of yourself that you, a fellow at the head of the eleven, should set such a bad example? Don't suppose that your size or position shall get you off. Come before the monitors ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar
... loose earth flickered the light of a fire, small and distant, round which wavered the inky silhouettes of men, and beyond which dimly shone a yellow face or two, a yellow fist clutched full of boiled rice like a snowball. Beyond these, in turn, gleamed other little fires, where other coolies were squatting ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... disadvantage of oral tradition is not that it forgets but that it proceeds snowball fashion, adding with every generation new edifying matter. The text of the Vedic hymns was preserved with such jealous care that every verse and syllable was counted. But in works of lesser sanctity interpolations and additions were made according to the reciters' ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot
... his escape a few months later, and again took the field at the head of a band of fourteen men. These increased in number, snowball fashion, as other guerrillas gradually rallied around the distinguished chief; and, at the head of an army, he reappeared in Oajaca. After defeating the Austrians, in whose keeping the state had been left, he reentered the city ...
— Maximilian in Mexico - A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 • Sara Yorke Stevenson


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