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snowball Definition

snow·ball (snō′bôl′)

noun

  1. a mass of snow packed together into a ball
  2. ☆ any of various plants with snowball-like flowers; esp., a cultivated European cranberry bush (Viburnum opulus var. roseum) with spherical clusters of sterile, white or pinkish flowers

intransitive verb

  1. to increase or accumulate rapidly and uncontrollably, like a ball of snow rolling downhill
  2. to throw snowballs

transitive verb

  1. to throw snowballs at
  2. to cause to increase or accumulate rapidly

snowball Usage Examples

Object

  • fight: Other memories include: Snowball fights in winter hiding behind giant snowballs.

Converse of object

  • throw: She danced in the dress, she threw snowballs in the dress, she played with her son in the pool in her dress.
  • make: Very soft layers Water droplets squeezed out of a snowball made from snow taken from any layer.
  • have: The first six replies carefully explained that you not have a snowball 's chance in hell of getting any satisfaction.
  • create: Predictably, Max gathered snow from mom's car to create a large snowball to take into the house to threaten his sister with.
  • get: Michael Owen has been included, tho I don't think he's got a snowball 's chance in hell of being fit.
  • roll: Once we do this, it's like rolling a snowball down a hill.

Adjective modifier

  • dirty: However, all of this is coming from a dirty snowball the size of a city.
  • giant: No longer do fashion conscious skiers have to worry about coming down the mountain looking like giant snowballs.
  • huge: Theres a huge snowball heading for the house... !
  • large: Predictably, Max gathered snow from mom's car to create a large snowball to take into the house to threaten his sister with.
  • rolling: Cardiff has been attracting change like a rolling snowball attracts snow.

Modifies a noun

  • sampling: Snowball sampling can be applied for two primary purposes.
  • fight: Some are sliding in their cars on the driveway where the snow has frozen; others are starting a snowball fight.
  • effect: Snowball effect of great wealth just ny cheap car insurance test results even.
  • earth: Curiously, the argument has been repeated recently by those advocating the snowball Earth theory.
  • sample: At present, a statistical formalization of snowball sample biases is not available ( Van Meter, 1990 ).
  • technique: The sample for the survey was drawn using a snowball sampling technique.

Possessives

  • chance: We held on to seats no hack gave us a snowball's chance in hell of holding.

Preposition: in

  • hell: One might as well search for a snowball in hell.