Snowball

Quick meaning: Snowball is a noun meaning A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.

Meaning

A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
2. (sex) A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
3. (US) A type of ice dessert: a snow cone.
4. A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.
5. Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.
6. (figurative, intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.

The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.

Scandal, with her, did not lose any of its usual snowball propensities, of gathering as it went.

Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934.

Word Forms

• snowballs
• snowballing
• snowballed

Related Words

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