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/ˈsnəʊbɔːl/ · 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..
Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...
It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.
Scandal, with her, did not lose any of its usual snowball propensities, of gathering as it went.
The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
There's a further knock-on effect from cancelling trains. It's not unusual for train crew diagrams to include a period 'on the cushions', travelling as a passenger to get staff from one train to the next. Cancel this train and it's likely the crew won't reach their next train, so this too is cancelled. Disruption snowballs and diagrams become harder to deliver.
Use snowball when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Snowball means 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..
Common synonyms include sweet sand verbena, abronia elliptica.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...
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