Snowball
From Freepedia
A snowball is a ball of snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands and compacting it into a roughly fist-sized ball. The snowball is necessary to hold a snowball fight.
Other uses of the word snowball include:
- Snowball programming language (computing)
- Snowball (Hurricane Katrina dog), the small white dog made famous by Associated Press reporter Mary Foster's coverage of the evacuation of the New Orleans Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
- Snowball sampling, a social research sampling method.
- Snowball, a character in George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm.
- Snowball, a feline character in The Simpsons.
- Snowball Earth to refer to periods in which nearly the entire planet was glaciated.
- The nickname of the character William Black from Kevin Smith's Clerks. and Mallrats movies. The name refers to the aforementioned sexual practice.
- A cocktail, briefly fashionable in the 1970s, made of about one part of Advocaat (a Dutch brand of egg nog) and eight parts of lemonade, usually served with ice and a slice of lemon.
- A regional treat (snowcone) made of shaved ice and flavorings popular in Baltimore, Maryland and Louisiana.
- A situation, event or the like is said to snowball if it continually grows in intensity or magnitude. This is a reference to the way snowballs get bigger gradually by picking up more snow when one rolls them around or down a hill.
- A surname, originating from a man with a white patch of hair on his head
- Another name for a speedball, a mixture of heroin and cocaine
- Snowball (swing dance), a variation on a dance in the style of swing.
